Jimmy Carter’s state funeral moves to Washington after observances in his native Georgia.
The 39th president’s remains will leave the Carter Presidential Center on Tuesday morning and fly to Washington aboard Special Air Mission 39.
The Carter family and former president will arrive at Joint Base Andrews, with a motorcade following to the U.S. Navy Memorial.
Carter’s flag-draped casket will be transferred to a horse-drawn caisson for his final journey to the Capitol.
Carter is the only U.S. Naval Academy graduate to become president.
Members of Congress will honor Carter in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday afternoon.
The ceremonies carry some irony for the one-term president who campaigned as an outsider in 1976 and never mastered the city.
-The Associated Press-
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