ATLANTA — As we remember former President Jimmy Carter, we now have the timeline of events for public viewings and funeral arrangements.
On Saturday, the former president will be carried from Plains to Atlanta, where he will lie in repose at the Carter Center from Saturday night until early Tuesday morning.
As for now, the Carter Center and Presidential Library are closed along with some of the roads around them because staff and police are getting ready for this weekend’s events.
That hasn’t stopped people from stopping by to pay their respects.
“I thought it was really cool that we actually got to see this memorial and just see how many people appreciated President Carter,” student Nathan Adeomi said.
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Adeomi, his mom and younger brother, took a road trip down south from Virginia for school vacation and thought it was a perfect time to visit the Carter CenterPresidential Library -- less than a week after former president Jimmy Carter died at age 100.
They didn’t realize that parts of John Lewis Freedom Parkway and Highland Street would be closed.
Nathan’s mother, Dr. Maimenut Adeomi, was determined to get there because she’s a physician who works in global health.
“We see and we call President Carter the Chief Humanitarian of the United States. We did a lot of great work across the world,” Maimenut Adeomi said.
She told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes that the former president inspired her sons to dream big.
“It shows we can all do things if we really want to, and all have great success even if we have humble beginnings,” Nathan Adeomi said.
The entire time, Kelly Callahan has been the director of the Center’s Tracomic Control Program which works to eliminate diseases all over the world.
Fernandes asked her what will change at the Carter Center now that President Carter is gone. She said not much.
“I’ve been in the Carter Center for 28 years,” Callahan said. “We’re rooted in eliminating human suffering and building hope waging peace and fighting disease with Jason Carter at the helm. Jason will take us into the future.”
Callahan told Fernandes that she had to give a presentation years ago detailing why she works at the Center.
She said love was the reason and ended her presentation with the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love.”
The memory of the former President and Rosalyn Carter swaying to the music will last forever.
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