'A man for all time': President Biden leads tributes to Jimmy Carter
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US President Joe Biden says the world has lost a "remarkable leader" and a "man for all time" after the death of Jimmy Carter. Mr Carter, who was US president between 1977 and 1981, died at his home in Georgia while surrounded by his family on Sunday afternoon.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner was aged 100. Read more: 'Jimmy who?' The US president 1970s America really needed. Making a televised address from his family holiday in the US Virgin Islands, Mr Biden said his predecessor represented "the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away".
"Jimmy Carter stands as a model for it means to live a life of meaning and purpose," he said. "I see a man not only not our times, but for all time. We could all do well to be a little more like Jimmy Carter.". Former US president Jimmy Carter dies. South Korea plane crash latest: Investigators pick through wreckage - as experts struggle to explain 'extremely unusual' crash.
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He had decided against "additional medical intervention" following a series of brief hospital stays. The Carter Center says there will be opportunities for the public to pay their respects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington DC before a private interment in his hometown Plains, while final arrangements for his state funeral are still being made.
