Former presidents including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, pictured here with Jimmy Carter in 2013, paid tribute to the one-time peanut farmer and Nobel laureate • Getty Images - North America Images credit: MARK WILSON
America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
Joe Biden led US presidents and other world leaders in paying tribute Sunday to Jimmy Carter, who died aged 100.
“America and the world lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
He added later in a televised address that Carter “lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds.”
“We’d all do well to try and be a little more like Jimmy Carter.”
President-elect Donald Trump said Americans owe Carter “a debt of gratitude.”
To read the full story on US AFP News, please visit https://us.afpnews.com/article/?us-and-foreign-leaders-praise-jimmy-carters-legacy,36RP3DG#
