As Ms. Wiles heads to Washington, the view in Trump World is that the president-elect’s closest aide and veteran strategist has a better chance than anyone.
Susie Wiles has told President-elect Donald J. Trump that it is her intention to stay all four years as chief of staff. “I’m going to try my best and give it everything I have,” she said.
Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford faced off in 1976 in a bitter campaign but later bonded as few presidents have — and made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pay their respects to a president. They were not going to miss it, even if meant waking up in the middle of the night.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who once banned the playing of “Hail to the Chief,” will lie in state at the Capitol as part of three days of elaborate ceremonies.
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda all day Wednesday before a formal state funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday. President Biden will deliver the eulogy.
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