fmr. pres. carter: sometimes introductions are hard to follow. i remember five years ago when i was running for governor and the young man who introduced me had done a great deal of work on my background and got up and said, we have with us tonight -- at that time senator jimmy carter from plains, georgia. he went to georgia southwestern, where he studied chemistry. and then he said, he went to georgia tech, where he studied engineering. and then he pointed out that i had gone to the u.s. 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 l

fmr. pres. carter: well, we try to make it tell a pretty honest story. not only about the administration, the mistakes and successes, the challenges and achievements, but also a balance of it to tell us about our youth, our marriage, our experiences as governor, and then the perfect campaign. and some of the key events that happened during the four years i was in the white house. i think it is a pretty good history of my life up and -- up to and including my time in the white house. >> how did you meet? mrs. carter: we both lived in plains, georgia, and everybody in planes the riverbed -- new everybody else. he was always older than i was, and when he was 16 i was only 13. and so, our first date was when he was at home, the year before he was a first-class man at the naval academy. >> and did you know then? fmr. pres. carter: i did, she didn't. i asked her for a date. we went to a movie together. she was so much younger than i was i didn't pay any attention to her, really. in the next morning my

fmr. pres. carter: thanks. thank you. [applause] fmr. pres. carter: [indiscernible] stand up again. you have been very busy. [applause] [indiscernible] she has a very important place in my life as well, and i want to recognize her. thank you. [applause] mr. kayongo: thank you so much for coming and being with us. we want to thank the museum for hosting us. ambassador peters for being with us. and for everyone here who is a distinguished and honored guest, remember, these are wonderful moments. treasure them and know that they

fmr. pres. i think it was a message of somebody who had lived a very good, thoughtful, decent life, and who wanted the music to reflect that the strong religious messages. but also messages about human rights. about gender equality. about tackling racism. they were the tributes to him. they spoke about him very long but very full life. i knew him before he was president, so i saw a lot of thought life. caitriona: what do you think if you were to distill it down, which is difficult to one or two main points of what his legacy will be? fmr. pres. robinson: he was a much better president than he has been given credit for. he is beginning to be revised and to be recognized, and i think what was said at the funeral today, reflected that. i felt he was an important president. first of all, he made an enormously important piece, you know, the way in which he brought them together for 13 days and he was working with them. he often spoke about that. he was a founder elder, like me, of the group that nels

fmr. pres. trump: we are looking at it now, most likely. those people have suffered long and hard.here may be some exceptions. we will have to look. if somebody was radical or crazy, there might be some people from antifa there. you do not know, because those same -- those people seem to be in good shape. you know who scaffold man was? he stood on the scaffold telling people what to do, and nothing ever happened to him. what about reyes? strange what he was saying, where is he in what happened to him? people did very little. they arrested an old woman because she -- i don't think she did anything. they do not even know what she did. these people have suffered. their lives have been destroyed. yet, in portland, where they burned down half the city. they burn it down half the time, like a routine experience, they don't do anything. they destroyed the beautiful limestone exterior of a courthouse in portland. they killed people in portland, seattle. people got killed in seattle. seattle, they took over a big chunk of the city. they took it over. they took the city away. minneapolis, it

[applause] fmr. pres. carter: thank you very much. thank you, everybody. >> former president jimmy carter is lying in state here at the u.s. capitol rotunda as the nation honors the 39th president. this preseason funeral service at washington national cathedral is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10:00 eastern, followed by mr. cardi's burial in plains, georgia tomorrow afternoon. the world knew jimmy carter as a president and humanitarian, but he was also a painter and woodworker. during his years in the navy jimmy and rosalynn carter joe's unfurnished military housing to stretch his monthly wage and he else they're furniture himself in a shop on base. the associated press rights, his portfolio illuminates his closest relationships, his spartan sensibilities, and continues to improve the finances of the carter center in atlanta, his enduring legacy.

♪ fmr. pres.arter: i want us to have a nation that is as competent and compassionate and filled with love as all the american people. ♪ ♪