“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The country was thirsting for moral renewal and for Carter, as this genuinely religious figure, to come in and clean things up."

The Carter Center bid farewell to its founder Tuesday morning as former President Jimmy Carter started his final journey to Washington, D.C.

A winter storm that impacted Washington, D.C., on Monday has forced some changes in Tuesday’s schedule for the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.