you have been watching live coverage. we were turn out our scheduled program. we join it in progress. rescue in the city of miami, and i can tell you that the city became a battleground of gangsters killing one another for months after mr. carter allowed that particular catastrophe to go on. so, for those that want to believe that jimmy carter was a great man and a great president, i will conclude that he was not a bad man but a terrible president. i will not even go into the hostage scenario. part of the problem regarding the helicopters was due in part to the fact that jimmy carter did not give to the military all of the things that they needed

in order to maintain a strong country. that is all i wanted to say and thank you very much. host: nelson in florida. cristiano also in florida from miami. good morning, luciano. caller: first, i disagree 100%. with what this guy was saying about the cuban refugees. i came in 1980 thanks to president jimmy carter who open the door of the united states to people like me. there were 5000 cubans who came to america and less than 5% of these refugees were really troubled people, people who had problems and made trouble in the united states. but, a sickly the crime --

basically the crime in miami in the 70's and 80's was because a big part of the cuban-american community that were involved in illegal drugs trafficking and the colombian cartel. in 1987, i had the opportunity to visit the carter center and personally say thank you to president carter and his wife for giving me the opportunity to meet and to the cubans who believed in freedom and contributed to this great country. i do not have words to say thank you for president carter for the

opportunity. thank you very much and the rest of you -- and rest in peace president cardo. -- carter. host: that is luciano sharing his memory of meeting president carter and what he did for him as an immigrant in jiabao. president carter passed away last sunday at the age of 100. it was back in 1995 where he sat down for an interview with his book "always a reckoning and other poems." he was asked about the plans for his eventual funeral and here's a portion. [video clip] >> you have, i am trying to find it. a poem in here about probably too far in this book.

but i will get you started on talking about it. it is a poem about the end of your life and a bunch of professors. >> that is right. >> what is the point? >> that is one of them. we were trying to analyze the impact on the carter center and its relents -- its relationship with emory university when i was dead. and we got a group of scholars to analyze how the university would treat the carter center when i was no one there. they could not bring themselves to use any frank language about my being dead. so they finally derived a euphemism that my level of participation would be reduced. >> did you hear them talking

about this? >> it came out in a written report to the president of the university. and they could not bring themselves to say when he passes away or when he is gone or anything like that. >> you say "i now dead have recently reduced my level of precipitate -- a person -- of which is a patient." >> that is the euphemism they used. just a kid them i wrote the first version and sent it to them as a funny thing and i said this is an interesting concept and i will make a poem about it. >> this sketch by your granddaughter is i assume the carter family around your gravesite. >> is a preacher and part of a funeral ceremony. there are a lot of very nice things, pass on to a heavenly rewardor going to meet his maker no longer with us, or having passed away.

these professors couldn't even bring themselves to say that i was going to pass away, meet my heavenly reward come or meet my maker. just that my level of participation would be reduced. >> do you have to think about your eventual departure more than most people would? >> as a matter of fact, my wife and some of my staff did. they worked out complete funeral ceremony plans in advance. it was really inherited from what president ford has done. there are some things that you have to decide before the president's demise. before the former president's level of participation is reduced. there are a lot of plans that have to be made. i haven't been participating in it. i let my wife be the ultimate judge of what should be done. there is a professional staff associated -- i think with the

marine corps -- who know the history of presidential funerals, processions, the display of the body, how much is done within the capitol building and in different places. >> is your family, by the way, buried in plains, georgia? >> yes. my first ancestor was born in 1798 and roslyn's was born in 1787. since then, almost all of us have an born and died in plains. host: today is the first day of several that will honor and memorialize president jimmy carter. the state funeral getting underway in georgia before he makes his way to washington, d.c.. to give you an idea of what will be seen in 15 minutes or so, the carter family is expected to arrive at the medical sumter

center in georgia at 10:15, the building on your screen. current and former special agents in charge from the u.s. secret service, carter protection division, will carry president carter's remains and walk alongside the hearse as the motorcade departs from the medical center. it will travel to carter's hometown, a 15 minute drive, and his boyhood home for a brief pause in front of his family's farm. that is expected to happen at about 10:15. that's the family farm on your screen. during that pause, the national park service is going to render a salute to the late president and ring the historic farm bill 39 times. all of that is expected to start happening in the next 10 or 12 minutes.

we are expecting to see the carter family arrive at the medical center in americus, georgia. back to your calls. loretta in wilton, connecticut. good morning. caller: thank you for having me on the line. jimmy carter was a great president. we have had great presidents. ronald reagan was very good. the bush family was great. we have, right now, joe biden, who is a superman to handle everything he got when he came into office. we were blessed with these presidents. i want people to think, that are good and bad people in the world. these presidents are just doing the best they can at the time they have. we should be grateful for what we've had. i am not looking forward to the

future, because, when i vote i vote for the person. i don't vote for a party. i pick out who will be the one to handle things the best for our country. i love this country. when i was a little girl my grandmother asked me, who are you? i said, i am an american catholic. i was very proud of where i come from. the united states of america. i want people to

>> he had only been there about six months. the last one, he turned into a true trumpian. good luck to him because he's going to need it. but i would like to say, president carter, rest in peace. we love you. host: good morning, south. -- sal. caller: good morning. i would like to see i think jimmy carter was a pathetic, lousy president. he believed president-elect first time on russian involvement and wrote a book entitled "palestine peace apartheid," which equated israel with the palestinians. he wanted to recognize hamas. he met with castro, he never condemned the communist system in cuba. in fact, he praised fidel

castro's health care system in cuba. he was a very naive man. he did not know right from wrong. he was a good man -- i'm not saying he is bad. he was ok. he tried to do good, but he was pathetically naive and allows the president. host: sal in new jersey. bob, michigan, good morning. caller: good morning. jimmy carter was a visionary. much of what he expounded as his philosophy has sort of come to pass, particularly environmentally and other areas. and attempted to strike some peaceful resolution in the middle east, where they had been trying to do that for 3000 years, nobody had any luck with that. like most visionaries, sometimes

your vision does not come to pass until later on. i will say that the first two years of his presidency, i was a carpenter, and we were making great money, and all of a sudden, everything fell apart. i'm not sure why at this point. and it lasted here for many years into reagan's first term, also. i've got to say, his vision was right on the money. he was never able to really achieve it because of human frailty, but we love jimmy carter. i'm sorry to see him go. host: john, florida, good morning. caller: good morning.

as far as their hopes and dreams to be fulfilled. the politics is overtaken with partisanship, and we need to get back as far as democracy. host: john, how did you know the carter's? caller: well, i was hoping we would. fourth, but i had some issues had to deal with. anyway, she dealt with until

health, i spoke about the kickoff for her book at miami-dade college, and i asked her a question about mental health, and if she had education to help, and also with jimmy, and i gave him a ring had of dolphin, and i said i'm also related to one of the founding families of the nation, and i spoke with him about that. we had a really nice conversation. one last thing i have to say. we don't know our history. that is part of entomology for democracy. we don't know our history. so as well is we don't know what

happened. what we are dealing with now is an extensive un-civil war, and we don't know what happened at the end of the civil war is that some of the aristocrats, the scalawags, they did not accept they did was they got all of their moles and they put them into the north, the department agencies, and they have been moles ever since, and that is what we have right now. and that is how they were able to put in the justice department, there moles that delayed the prosecution of january 6 and kicked it down the road so they could delay, delay, delay. that's all i got to say. host: that was john in florida.

resident carter sat down with c-span several times over the years for an interview talking about books and other topics. in 1999, he was asked during one of the interviews about his view of the office of residency. here are his remarks. [video clip] >> talk about the american presidency, the office of the presidency. would you change anything if you could and is it as powerful as it should be? >> it is extreme and powerful in the arena of foreign policy. the consultation gave the unilateral right to do so, in that decision. battle, i could have done so. as has been done many times since i left office, without confrontation or getting permission from congress in advance.

in domestic legislation, almost all the legislation that was passed through my four years originated in the white house. i bill that originated -- i can't remember a single major bill that originated in the congress. congress presented to me this is what i want about these subjects and we had a good batting average. the thing the president has no control over is the economic of the nation. he has an equal role to play with congress and taxation, but the federal reserve board really determines the rate of inflation and tightness of money, which results in the growth of the economy. even greater is the free enterprise system of our country. what the conglomerate, what major corporations do, general

motors, ibm, and so forth. the other fact over which the president has no control is the international situation. if a war erupts or if you have a so-called asia crisis, which we've had lately, the president has nothing to say about that. when nixon was in office i was governor and we had the formation of opec and the oil embargo against anyone who traded with israel. we had long gas lines and the price of oil went sky high. that wasn't nixon's fault. he didn't have anything to do with it. the president gets changed for economic changes if they are bad and it takes credit for them if they are good, but for all purposes the president plays may be a 10%, 15% role in the nation's economy. foreign policy. domestic policy, 50-50. host: a state funeral for jimmy

carter begins today. this is a live look in georgia. right now, you can see the motorcade pulling up. that is the carter family. they are expected to be there for a few minutes before traveling to president carter's hometown of georgia. shortly, you will see the family getting out of motorcade and current and former special agent in charge from the u.s. secret service protection division will take president carter's remains to the hearse and walk alongside as the motorcade parts that center. back to your calls while we wait for the carter family to arrive. christopher in new jersey. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you, c-span,

bringing us historical significance of events like this. jimmy carter was a man who showed all young people how to indeed do public service. to do good for all humanity and to change the world for the better. i know because as an advocate for people with special needs and as someone who is fighting to make a difference, i can understand jimmy carter and i have that in common. i do believe that if we can learn a great deal from jimmy carter's life is to be able to go above and beyond the malaise of what is happening in the world today, and we can rise above all the darkness and divisiveness and everything else to be a world of humanity and a world of good. so that young people can show the world what good can do by serving in public places and doing public service to go places like soup kitchens, or help build homes, and stuff.

i encourage every young person to follow the example of the great jimmy carter. to not only help overcome the crisis of confidence and the crisis of confidence we are seeing now in our world, but also be a global citadel of change and justice and being able to have greater good overcome the great evil we are seeing around the world. may jimmy carter's legacy be that of helping inspire the next generation and being a light in this very dark time that we face. my heart goes to jimmy carter's family, his friends, and all of georgia. we want to say, thank you, mr. president, for showing us the way in public service even after you served your country with the highest distinction. my grandfather was a military man himself, and that is what also -- host: christopher, thank you for your call. we will leave it there.

we want to be able to show you some of the sights and sounds that is happening. that is the carter family arriving at the phoebe sumter medical center in americus georgia. we will let you taken -- take in those sights and sounds for a few minutes.

>> if you are just joining us, that is the hearse carrying former president jimmy carter, departing the medical center in americus, georgia, and wrote --

en route to plains, georgia. . again, it is now going to be making the 15 minute drive to his boyhood home. they will briefly talk to a friend of the family farm. that is expected to happen at 10:15 a.m. the national park service will ring the historic farm bill 39 times. that is a live look at president carter's boyhood home, where the family is expected to arrive in about 15 minutes. we will go back to your calls

and hear more of your thoughts on the life and legacy of former president jimmy carter. annie, michigan. thank you for being with us while we showed our viewers what was happening. caller: good morning. host: hi, annie. caller: hi, are you still there? host: yes, go ahead. caller: i just wanted to let everybody who is watching, please do not judge president jimmy carter only on the four years he was in office. he did a lot of miraculous things before he became president and afterwards. one of the things he did was see insisted at the plant in canada of stopping [indiscernible] depending on which way the winds blow. he can only spend 90 seconds in

the tunnel to loosen a bolt, and there was a crew of men who went up to canada to basically save us, and hardly anybody in the news programming said anything about this since he passed away, which is phenomenal to me because i know this is going back when i was in high school, and we were talking about president carter, and it is just saying that people do not do a more in-depth look like before and after he was president. i know a lot of people talked about afterwards, but he did a lot of wonderful things. he was highly intelligent. he graduated from the naval academy. nuclear submarine. i mean, he was a unique

humanitarian who taught us morally all how to be better people, and it is more than the four years he was president. i will look at his entire life and try to emulate my life like is because i don't see that type of moral integrity in politicians at all, but a good portion of them today. we need to get back to integrity, character, morals, ethics, principles and values again. that is all i wanted to say. host: that was annie in michigan. we will be live here on "washington journal" for another 25 minutes or so as we remember president jimmy carter. his estate funeral services beginning today in georgia. we will continue to show you events as they happen. if you would like to comment on

president carter's life and legacy, you can call in. eastern or central time zone, (202)-748-8000. mountain or pacific, (202)-748-8001. bernie, washington, good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. hi. i just wanted to say a little bit about the president, former president carter. i'm an american indian from montana, born in what they call people of the white clay. in 1976, president carter signed into law american indian religious freedom act, allowing american indians procrastination to practice their religions again. it was banned in the 1880's by the federal government.

so, i just wanted to thank him for allowing american indian people again the freedom of religion, which is this country's foundation. i just wanted to thank him and appreciate everything you did for the people of all color, four nations, black, yellow, red, white. we are all related. thank you, president carter. host: michael, new york, good morning. caller: good morning. a lot of people in the united states should seek people like president carter, there is not

all this fighting back and forth, president carter did a lot for the war. [indiscernible] wherever america goes, the world goes. this man did a lot. that is all i have to say. host: dan, columbus, -- jan, columbus, ohio. caller: hi. i would like to thank president carter for his dignity that he should in any debate with gerald ford. he always called him a distinguished opponent, and he always did wonderful things about not disparaging anybody's character. and i think that would be a wonderful thing. you might call what we have now a theocracy, not a democracy,

where everybody is divided. i would like to get back to the non-divided. thank you. host: that was jan in columbus, ohio. a live look in georgia, where president carter's hometown, where his boyhood. in about 10 minutes. during that stop, the national park service will render a salute to the late president and ring the historic farm bill 39 times in his honor. judy south beach, oregon. good morning. caller: i would like to stay, jimmy carter was the first president i voted for. i'm proud to say that. he is what decency looks like. he spent his whole life, he

spent his whole life doing good things. everything he did was for the love of people, all different types of people. just really proud to say i voted for him. i followed him, and i cannot think of anything bad to say about him. thank you, jimmy carter. thank you. host: it was in 2008 that president carter spoke about his hopes for the future at a commencement address at liberty university. it is one of his last appearances on the network. here's a portion of his remarks. [video clip] president carter: when i became president, and before i was inaugurated, i was given a briefing by the military leaders of our country, and i learned navy for the first time that if i probated a nuclear war, the

use of atomic weapons, that the arsenals of the soviet union and the united states alone, if they were used in that kind of war, might and the ability of all human beings and animals to survive. because of the direct explosions , the atomic fallout, and the covering of the skies by dark clouds, smoke, and debris from the nuclear devices. no human being and no animals could survive a nuclear war. we now still have that great responsibility and threat, and

we have to share it with seven or eight other countries, rich, you know, russia, china, great britain, france, england. israel, pakistan, and india, and maybe we don't know for sure, north korea. with this threat, the human existence, what can you and i do about it? for a long time, humans had to contend with animals and we depended on them just for survival, and we depended on our speed, agility, our strength to survive any competition with animals. we know that for several generations now, human intelligence and the weapons we have developed would prevent us to prevail over other animals.

so what is that left to do? how can we prevail as human beings? one of the things we have to learn is how to get along, to do good for one another, and instead of how -- in other words, follow the mandates. even learning how to live with her enemies in peace. it is what jesus taught. and that is her only chance of survival in the future. [end video clip] host: this is a look at president carter's home in archery, georgia. service workers have gathered there. the family of president carter

is expected to arrive in five or six minutes. there will be a brief pause in front of the family farm, and they will render salutes to the late president and ring the historic farm bill 39 times. after the pause, the late president will begin his final journey to atlanta, president carter's hearse will stop at the georgia state capital later today for a moment of silence and then be transported to the carter presidential center for an arrival ceremony in service. president carter will light in repose from sunday night until tuesday. he will then depart the presidential center on tuesday to washington, where he will lie in state at the capitol rotunda tuesday night through thursday morning.

thursday morning, the national funeral service will be held at the washington cathedral. after that, president carter will head back to georgia aboard special admission 39 to georgia for a private funeral service and internment at the carter residence. we will continue to show you these live pictures this morning, and taking your calls until the carter family arrives. next, san diego, california, good morning, jason. caller: i would like to say there's a slight contrast between president-elect and jimmy carter. one thing that they don't have in common is both were one-time presidents -- one term

president's. and there's a good and evil. that's all i need to say. thank you. host: jim, west virginia. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. i had a lot of different reflections, listening to people, their opinions and views. to me, it is a reflection more of truth and reality when people look back at real history. i think there is too much of a political tendency from the right to blame, blame, blame, to be sarcastic and cynical. you can tell every time you watch fox news that jimmy carter did a lot of things. he was way ahead of his time with the solar panels on the white house roof, stuff like that. he was looking forward from

saying we cannot be dependent on dirty energy forever, but people do not want to listen. i'm just saying, for example, president trump, the things that happened while he was president, a lot of not great things. there is a big mass shooting in las vegas at that concert where lots of people died, and the covid pandemic hit. and he did not do such brilliant negotiation on trade with the terrorists he slept on china, usmca, cut off supplies of building materials and agriculture material from canada. so look at your own people, your own leaders on what they do or don't do, things that just don't work out great, and be as quick to criticize them as you are a decent democrat like jimmy carter, who was always trying in a bipartisan way, and he respected the military. he was part of the military.

we need to remember that, to consider all of humanity and mankind, and everybody else's point of view and succumb to some good compromises to have a decent future. host: you can see on your screen, the motorcade is traveling to president carter's home town of archery, georgia, his boyhood farm, they should be arriving momentarily. the motorcade departed the sumter medical center in americus, georgia. we will hear from norman, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: yes, good morning, c-span and the u.s. i think a lot of people miss the fact that jimmy carter -- a lot of people know he was probably one of the most honest, decent

whoever filled the white house. but a lot of people don't realize he was a one term president because there were people in washington on both sides that really did not want a guy who is going to come in and do everything he could further people, for the capital letters, for taking bribes, and lobbying -- lobby money from lobbyists, if jimmy carter had become a second term president, he would have ended the gravy train for a lot of the people in washington. he was a good, decent, honest person. you look at his whole entire life, and there's nothing nefarious about it. he tested everything he could to help the people.

and big money side. when we had the gas shortage, and i live in pennsylvania, at the time when we had the gas shortage were people were waiting in lines, there were nine oil tankers sitting in the delaware bank, waiting to refine oil, they were not allowed to do that. the same thing happened to louisiana, oklahoma and texas. they did not want a good man in there. it is a shame. we have gone so far from that example in today's world, so he was a good man. thank you. host: that was norman in pennsylvania. jim, ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. well, i was a science teacher for 30 years. everybody might forget, or a lot of people, that jimmy carter was

a nuclear engineer. you have to go back pretty far in the history of our country to find any kind of president with the credentials of that nature and what that means in terms of their innate intelligence, and the story about the oil tankers sitting out there, assuming it is correct, sounds a little bit how the hostages just happened to get released five minutes after i believe ronald reagan was installed as president. so i wanted to get down there a number of times to meet jimmy carter, but you know what, i put it on -- host: christopher, in michigan,

good morning. caller: thank you for c-span and all you do. such a beautiful host, it is great to watch, but i have to say, i'm thankful, very thankful for president jimmy carter. i was in middle school when he was elected so i was not able to vote for him, but such a decent, god-fearing, lovely man. rosalynn carter and his family, boy, i wish we had that kind of decency in the white house. god bless. thank you. host: that was christopher in michigan. you can see on your screen, this is motorcade arriving, carrying

the carter family and also part of that motorcade is carrying former president jimmy carter. they had left the medical center in americus, georgia, and should be arriving at president carter's boyhood farm in archery, georgia. you can see them there on the screen. in a few minutes, you can see earlier, it was a group of national park service workers who had gathered to greet the family. here you can see the motorcade coming down the road now. that motorcade will stop, and there will be a salute to the late president. they will ring the historic della the farm 39 times, in honor of the 39th president. we will let you take a listen to the sights and sounds we are seeing right now.

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>> live look at jimmy carter's motorcade for funeral services today in georgia, leaving president carter's boyhood home, archery, georgia, his boyhood farm where they paused for a 39