Five living presidents gathered at the service in Washington. They were a reminder of how much has changed in US politics<\/p>\n
Heavy with honours, attended by all living US presidents, and swathed in public affection, Jimmy\u00a0Carter received a solemn state funeral on Thursday\u00a0on the kind of cold and crystalline January\u00a0day at\u00a0which Washington DC\u2019s climate can excel. Within hours, though, the 39th US president\u2019s remains were interred\u00a0in a private ceremony alongside his wife Rosalynn, in the shadow of the modest house they built in 1961 in Plains, Georgia, where Mr Carter was born more than a century ago, and where he died at the\u00a0end of December.<\/p>\n
This sharp juxtapositions of Mr Carter\u2019s final day in the world\u2019s eye were somehow appropriate. He made his home in Washington for the four years of his presidency, but his roots and heart were always in Georgia. His manifest personal decency and lack of Beltway experience made him the \u201cnot-Nixon\u201d that the US needed after Watergate. Yet after a presidency marked by spiralling oil prices and the Iran hostage debacle, America quickly turned to a \u201cnot-Carter\u201d candidate in the shape of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n
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