Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”

President Jimmy Carter's remains were brought to the Carter Center in Atlanta on Jan. 4. He will lie in repose until he is transported to Washington, D.C. for a funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Jan.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

The funeral ceremonies for former President Jimmy Carter are underway. His body was transferred from his hometown of Plains, Georgia, to Atlanta.

This conventional wisdom ignores one of the most important and ironic legacies of Carter’s career: the powerful brand of civic populism he brought to the presidency, but later abandoned in favor of the “expert-knows-best” technocratic culture that had already come to dominate much of Washington.