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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Roy O'Neil is joining us the morning in the funeral
for Jimmy Carter reposed today. He'll lie in state at
the Capitol Building later this week as America remembers a
really amazing guy, more so than president. I mean that
could be debated among partisans, but no one can debate
a man of faith and a good family man.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Indeed, and really the services, the state services started on Saturday,
but as you said, he now lies in repose at
the Carter Center there in Atlanta. Tomorrow he will be
taken to the US Capitol Building too, Lion State. Both
of those events are public and mourners are welcome to
go and pay their respects. The funeral service will be
(00:44):
held on Thursday at the National Cathedral. President Biden to
deliver one of the eulogies, but all five presidents, the living,
current and former presidents, will all be gathered at the
National Cathedral on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I think I mentioned this to John Decker on Friday,
not you, but I mean think about to put into perspective,
the oldest living president now is the city President Joe Biden.
He'll deliver the eulogy. How can we best remember Jimmy Carter.
I don't know that I would. You know, I can
tell you as a person of faith, there are a
lot of things that distract you in the course of
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a lifetime, things that get your eyes off of what
you believe and doing and actually living it and on
to other things. This is a guy that was steadfast
and his faith was always in service to others. That's
kind of how I'm going to remember him. Even though
he's not one of my favorite presidents, he's a great
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example of faith.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And never I don't think anyone questioned his motives. Yeah,
you know, in terms of you as a man of faith,
and you think that he was elected with coming out
of Watergate, coming out of Vietnam, that he was elected
to sort of bring a fresh perspective, and obviously things
got away from him when he got there.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Was it bad timing for him or was he a
part of what led to some of the economic failures?
I think for me and being as kind as I can,
and the timing, the meddling in the Iranian election, the
fall of the Shaw, the rise of the Iyatola, the
hostage crisis that ended his presidency and began the Reagan Revolution,
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and really also began the Islamic Islamic Republic of Iran,
which is to this day probably the most predictable threat
to the world. That would probably be his biggest mistake.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, and then you lead into the oil crisis, the
economic problems, the high inflation and record high interest rates,
and obviously that it tied up the Reagan Revolution at
the same time as the two of them being you know,
quite dynamically opposing figures, really and one much more soft
spoken than the other. Yeah, pretty remarkable the way that
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you'll almost need the yin and the yang right exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well, and you'll be foing this as a news person,
and it'll be fascinating because today the certification of the
twenty twenty four election results. So you have an outgoing president,
you have an incoming president for a second time, and
one lying in state at the Capitol. That's kind of
an interesting time for all fallen.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's going to be an incredible week in Washington, one
of the most for the security concerns are off the
charts because of all the things that are happening this
week and whether Biden, Yeah, President Biden in New Orleans
today and Kamala Harris sort of find the election results
at the Capitol today and then you go off to
the funeral the Supreme Court in the TikTok case the Thursday. Yeah,
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it goes on and on.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
There's a lot of I think, I think you've got
a lot of stuff to talk about this week. Good
to have you here to explain it. All right, Roy
O'Neil will be back in the third hour.