naval academy, the u.s. navy band, the secretary of the navy, the superintendent of the naval academy. vice admiral yvette davis is there as well here we will go there shortly. after the naval academy, former president and the motorcade headed to the u.s. capitol for a ceremony. i want to bring in congressional correspondent nikole killion. she is on capitol hill. nikole, thank you for braving the cold today. >> it's a lot colder here than it is in plains, georgia, right now but i'm sure president carter wouldn't mind. of course this tribute that will be paid in his honor here at the u.s. capitol later this afternoon. it on capitol hill so often we lament the gridlock and lack of bipartisanship at times but on this day, republicans and democrats are united in their respect of the 39th president and that will be on display when his remains are brought here to the east front of the capital on a horse drawn carriage, his casket will be carried out these main steps directly into the capitol rotunda where a cerem

he was a member of the naval academy class of 1947. think about that. the class of 1947. and graduated in 1946 as part of an accelerated wartime program. now, some more background information on the history of lying in state at the capitol. a grand total of 34 people have lain in this in state in the capitol rotunda that includes 12 presidents. the late president carter becomes the 13th to lie in state. others have lain in state in the capitol building, such as late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg and late congressman elijah cummings of maryland. but they were on the house side of the capitol. eight people have lain in honor in the capitol rotunda, which is similar but one step down from lying in state. the last president to lie in state was the late president george herbert walker bush. in december 2018, the last person to lie in state was the late senate majority leader harry reid of nevada. in january 2022. this time last year, we were all at the iowa caucuses, but the first in the nation did not get much attention until 1976. that's when jimmy carter, a pret

he finally asked me how i was at the naval academy. i was so-and-so in the class of 800 something.do your best? i thought for a long time. i did always study as part as -- hard as i could have. >> president like donald speaking to the press. president-elect trump: very exciting for a country. we are honored to welcome one of the most respected business

he finally asked me how i stood in my class at the naval academy. i told him i stood so and so in a class of 8800-something, very proud. and he said did you do your best? i thought for a long time. i didn't always study as hard as i could. i finally told him, no, i did you not always do my best. and he said, why not? and he turned around, and ended the interview. that was the last thing he ever said. he didn't look at me again. i sat there for a long time not knowing what to do. finally i got up and walked out of the room. i didn't know where to go. a couple of weeks later i got a notice that i'd been accepted. >> you entered the navy in 1943. president carter: yes, i had an appointment to the naval academy in 1943. >> why annapolis? president carter: when i was 5 years old, if anyone had asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up, i would say i want to go to annapolis and be an officer in the navy. my father had been a first lieutenant in the army. and this was during the depression years. no one in my family's family finished high school in a cou

naval academy. the army and his uncle who we really liked does he really liked and inspired him was in the navy pier originally as a submariner, jimmy carter planned to serve a full career and the navy then he was taking about retiring to hawaii or maybe annapolis where the u.s. navy academy is. but his career ended 1953 because his families peanut business was struggling. after his dad's death he went back to georgia to take care of that. >> it's almost it's a wonderful life type story he had dreams of living in hawaii as you say brett and the family business brought him back home. he had to pick up after his father's death and continue there. there is an interesting vignette i read about things giving looking at the numbers of the family as they gather for the transfer appeared there amy carter his youngest child who many of us remember as this little girl in the white house. she had three older siblings. that there is a funny story about thanksgiving and in georgia where the family then governor

now he's at the naval academy. he's got all these people from all over the country who are a-plus students. hard chargers, brilliant. jimmy carter realized, you know what, i'm as smart as all these people. i had no idea how i could fit in to a national group of overachieving people, which naval midshipmen are. he fit right in. in his last over 800 he was in the top 10% and rose up through the ranks and became a nuclear engineer and served important work on submarines. this is a for real connection between the late president and the military because of carter's extended service in the navy. host: talmage boston, doug brinkley, another presidential historian, also talked about jimmy carter's years in the navy and how that really shaped him. he was always punctual. he wanted everything in order. when you look at today and how the funeral procession and proceedings are unfolding, with with military precision and punctuality, would he appreciate this? guest: absolutely. he would not want it any other way. and doug is a

he was 5 years old that he knew he wanted to go to the naval academy and he sure did.was the only president to graduate from there. his father was an army man in world war i but he said he had a favourite uncle in the navy and that's what inspired him. >> it was great to hear andrew young. he's also the 55th mayor of atlanta. he was my mayor when i grew up in atlanta so a lot of history going back there and his relationship with president carter. really special. he was a submariner. he thought that his career was going to end in the navy and that maybe he would have a long naval career and then retire in hawaii. his family farm was going under after his father passed and he went back to georgia to take care of the peanut farm. it was the humble roots that really he used as a political effort to say to people this is a new generation. this is the turning of the page if you will from watergate and vietnam. it was really successful. it's what the country wanted and it's what the country needed. that feeling of humility from their leader. there will be critics of his polic

he finally asked me how i stood in my class in the naval academy. i told him i stood so-and-so in a class of 800-something. he said, did you do your best? i thought for long time. i didn't always study as hard as i could. i told him, i didn't always do my best. he said, why not? he turned around and ended the interview. that was the last thing he ever said. i sat there for a long time not knowing what to do. finally i got up and walked out of the room. a couple of weeks later i got a notice that i had been accepted. >> you entered the navy in 1943? fmr. pres. carter: yes. i had an appointment to the naval academy. >> why annapolis? fmr. pres. carter: when i was five years old if anyone had asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up i would say, i want to go to an annapolis and be an officer in the navy. my father had been a first lieutenant in the army. this was during the depression years. no one in my father's family had ever finished high school. and that he was insistent that i go to college, even though we didn't have any money at the time. an

and, of course, as we all know, jimmy carter went to the naval academy, graduated from the naval academy. it was one of his pride events. >> yeah. that was that was initially what he he saw. he wanted a lifelong career in the navy and, you know, didn't really have washington on on his vision board necessarily until, of course, you know, when he was trying to be an engineering officer, his father passed away unexpectedly in 1953, and he returned home to plains to to run the family farm. and that is what positioned him for politics. and eventually the presidency. and, wolf, to think of when president carter was was here in office. and joe biden and he had a relationship as well. and joe biden once was quoted as saying he didn't know if it was worse to be his enemy or his friend, and it just spoke to that relationship that, that they had. and obviously, we'll see that come full circle. on thursday at the national cathedral. wolf, when when president biden eulogizes president carter, yes, it will be will be covering that, of course, as well. >> we're about to hear hail to the chief once agai

naval academy. jimmy carter in his early life served in the u.s. navy.ee the procession is starting to form on pennsylvania avenue. on these -- just on his early life and why they have chosen the national navy memorial. he started in the navy in 1948, training for submarine duty. later in his life, he started work on the fledgling nuclear program within the u.s. submarines. >> absolutely. at his wife's funeral last year, their daughter read a letter saying how much he missed her. he came back from the navy afterward to return to the agro business. he became famous campaigning as the peanut farmer. we have seen some memorials have jars of peanuts in his honor. but it was a business, his family was successful in plains, georgia. he became known for that and build himself into politics, became governor of georgia. and then president. >> i don't think people have been to the naval memorial. pretty spectacular. you have this grant surround that reforms the world in front of the memorial of the naval office. and when you look back in history, you would find th

when the naval academy, the graduates 39th out of a class of 650.nto the most elite program in the navy, a famous program that runs the cold war and developed nuclear powered submarines that soviets couldn't match. he was trying to get into the program and asks him, did you do your best? he thought he had. d. he wheeled around in his chair and said, why not? this was in 1952. carter thought, i'm not going to get in. he respected his honesty. from that day until the day he died, you did -- he did his best and everything which is with the nobel prize citation included. >> i had the great honor perhaps a decade ago of mana meeting is cannot nominating a panel of nobel peace winners. jimmy carter was on that panel. it was an extraordinary conversation we had formally. afterwards, we were leaving the stage and they were going to have their photographs taken by an illegal it's perhaps the most famous american photographer. they joked about it was a bunch of old men still trying to have an influence on peace, but i do think, lindsay, if you are still with

naval academy and received a degree in naval science. and then he said, he went to union college in schenectady, new york, where he did his graduate work in nuclear physics. and now, he said, he grows peanuts for a living. [laughter] ♪ >> jimmy carter's roots go deep into the dark red soil of southwest georgia. he was born near the small farming town of planes, but like many young people decided against continuing the family tradition. eventually he ended a promising career as a naval officer to return to the land, zooming the works of his parents and their parents before them. fmr. pres. carter: my children will be the sixth the generation on the same land. although i have had a chance to get an education as an engineer and scientist, nobody in my family had a chance to finish high school. we have always worked for a living. we know what it means to work. >> the determination, the self-discipline, the exertion that helps jimmy carter build a successful farming business would also see him through a punishing campaign. a campaign that was

naval academy and got a degree in naval science then he said he went to union check in new york where he did the graduate work in nuclear physics and now he grows peanuts for a living. >> jimmy carter's roots go deep into the dark red soil of southwest georgia. he was born near plains but like many young people decided against continuing the family tradition. eventually he ended a promising career as a naval officer to return to the land resuming the work his parents and their parents before them. >> my children will be the sixth generation on the same land. i had a good chance to get an education but nobody in my family ever had a chance to finish high school. we know what it means to work. >> the determination, the sever discipline and pure exertion that helped jimmy carter build a successful farming business would see him through a punishing campaign that was marked in the beginning by loneliness. there were no reporters, no cameras, no seek service nearby when jimmy first walked up and introduced himself to countsless voters. this style was unheard of for a pressure hopeful but fo

naval academy. that only president in history to graduate from u.s. naval academy.orld world war i, that he had a favorite uncle in the navy and that is what ultimately inspired him. that is a very neat story as the nation says its final goodbyes here to the late president as he will then make his way to the nations capitol, his final journey to washington, d.c.,, john. >> john: let's bring in seth jacobs and economic development has a 21-year-old staffer under president carter and the ceremony, thank you for joining us will take place naval memoris quite significant. jimmy carter was lieutenant in the navy and graduated top ten in his class in 1946. he was stationed to board an experimental nuclear submarine. i know the chief naval operations admiral is part of this ceremonial honor guard of the joint chiefs of staff. said this really will be quite a moment that we have not seen in presidential history. >> john and sandra, thank you so much again for inviting me on. it is quite a momentous moment. if you think about it, he was a military man, submariner and worked

jimmy carter entered the naval academy in 1943.and so this is the end of an era in presidential history. this is our last president who had world war ii experience. he is the last of the greatest generation. um, and he's also the last president who was a veteran of the korean war. he was certainly on duty during the korean war. i don't know if he was stationed in the pacific. i think he was in the atlantic. but in any case, there is an enormous amount of history represented by this visit to the naval memorial. it's it's not just because jimmy carter liked the national archives, which was across the street. it's also because i don't think you can understand jimmy carter without keeping in mind what he learned in the military and what he learned late, uh, learned from captain hyman rickover. um, jimmy carter is always remembered as a peanut farmer. yes, true. jimmy carter was also an engineer. he was also a nuclear engineer. he was a submariner. this is a complicated, highly professional, highly skilled man. and i hope all aspects of

jimmy carter is the first and only naval academy graduate to serve as president of the united states.val academy graduate, and that's jimmy carter. it's something he wanted to do as a small boy. when he was 5 or 6 years old, he wanted to go to annapolis, and that resolve was only enforced during the pearl harbor attacks when he was lying on a hammock and heard the jalapeno please attack on the radio -- japanese attack, and he knew he needed to serve. it took a little bit, liz. he had to go to community college for a few years, but he made his way to the class of '47. because of world war ii, the class graduated early, and carter first got married, of course, to then-rosalynn smith. he was a member of the 2% club, only 2% of midshipmen who go to the naval academy marry their college sweethearts. that that's what he did. jimmy carter and rosalynn, you know, were, of course, jimmy carter served on battleships for a number of years and then was transferred to the submarine community. of course, he worked for the finder or the -- founder of the the nuclear navy. jimmy carter was on a traje

i studied it in the naval academy but the vocabulary i developed in the navy was not suitable to the audience. [laughter] i tried to think of a story that would illustrate the point. i got out of a white house, involuntarily retired -- [laughter] -- i was invited to japan to make a speech. without a fee, they might add. [laughter] i decided to visit a small methodist college in southern japan, kyoto. the audience was nervous to have someone who just left the white house come to their college. the president, the students and their parents were uptight and i thought i will try to put everyone at ease by telling a joke. if you have had a speech translated into japanese, you know it takes longer than in english. i told my joke and an excellent interpreter gave my joke and the audience collapsed in laughter. there was the best response i ever had in my life to a joke. i couldn't wait to get through with my speech to go back to the holding room and ask the interpreter, how did you tell my joke? he was very evasive. [laughter] he finally ducked his head and said, i told the audience, presid

the brigade midshipmen of the united states naval academy at annapolis passes in review. next come the cadets of the united coast guard academy. men of the marine corps, a march down the broad avenue, which today is the parade ground for branch of the armed services. the 82 of the flying boxcar lead, one of the greatest air armadas ever to fly over the capital. more than hundred planes in all. i giant b 36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only the military, but is a panorama of american life. the president's home of missouri has several displays. one of them a wagon drawn by mule. other blows depict the product and of the various states. this is kentucky the vice president's home state? state, texas float moved down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington from the float honoring early american settlers who landed on the of that state. if of uncle sam striding down the avenue and. living civic business labor and fraternal organizations representing millions of their members from all over the countr

the brigade midshipmen of the united states naval academy at annapolis passes in review. next come the cadets of the united coast guard academy. men of the marine corps, a march down the broad avenue, which today is the parade ground for branch of the armed services. the 82 of the flying boxcar lead, one of the greatest air armadas ever to fly over the capital. more than hundred planes in all. i giant b 36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only the military, but is a panorama of american life. the president's home of missouri has several displays. one of them a wagon drawn by mule. other blows depict the product and of the various states. this is kentucky the vice president's home state? state, texas float moved down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington from the float honoring early american settlers who landed on the of that state. if of uncle sam striding down the avenue and. living civic business labor and fraternal organizations representing millions of their members from all over the countr

>> well, i already wanted to go to the naval academy. i was completing my application.lied through a congressman's website and after that i received a call from the school. it was my last class of the day and it was a call from washington. i almost didn't pick it up because i was in my last class was a gym class. and so then i did a double take and i looked at it again. saw the number was from washington. he called me and told me that i was getting the recommendation to all four service academies. >> ainsley: you probably couldn't jump up and down and scream, could you? >> i couldn't. >> ainsley: what did your teachers, friends and parents say? >> my teacher the first one i told was my instructor. he was excited and come up to his class immediately. he gave congratulations. i talked to the other naval science instructor and he congra congratulated. they did an announcement in the morning and everybody was congratulating me. my mom was super excited and family. >> ainsley: you go to a military academy in connecticut. i'm sure every one of your teacher was more overjoyed

the united states naval academy band, followed closely by the brigade of midshipmen men who will soon lead the united states navy. in this time of watchful peace. and for the first time ever to appear in inaugural parade, the cadets, the newly constituted air force academy, the backbone of our vital defensive air arm. and a public display on the latest weapons in our defense arsenal. the guided missiles, awesome and foreboding in appearance yet comforting in the knowledge that they stand as deterrent to aggression from any source weapons of defense relying upon a retaliatory so devastating that aggression will serve no purpose. new jersey's blow reminding everyone of the fight against polio was awarded the title most unique georgia. the ike's favorite golfing retreat in. augusta, georgia. the best design award was captured by flower with this very beautiful and the usual pretty girls girls. liberty and strength through the consent, the governed was portrayed in the theme float of the 1957 inaugural parade, the longest float of any ever to appear anywhere. it measured 407 feet long, re