One of the more emotional moments during the service for President Carter Thursday morning came from the words of former president Gerald Ford. (Jan. 9, 2025)
The late President Gerald Ford wrote a eulogy for his good friend President Jimmy Carter, which his youngest son Steven Ford read at the National Cathedral in a moving moment during Carter’s funeral.
President Biden will deliver a eulogy, and tributes written by Gerald Ford and Walter Mondale will be read by their sons.
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford may have started as political rivals, but they formed a tight bond behind the scenes, a former White House staffer tells PEOPLE. Their connection would span dec
Former President Gerald Ford and former Vice President Walter Mondale have passed away, but wrote eulogies for Carter's funeral before their deaths.
Steve Ford, the son of President Gerald Ford, read a tribute t Jimmy Carter written by the late Gerald Ford. Jimmy Carter died in December at age 100. He was the 39th president of the United States. President Ford died in 2006.
Steve Ford, son of former President Gerald Ford, read a eulogy to former President Jimmy Carter written by his father before his 2006 death. Both presidents had agreed to eulogize each other, knowing that one would have to entrust the delivery to someone else, Steve Ford said.
Gerald Ford’s son Steve Ford read his father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at Thursday's funeral service, drawing a few smiles, laughs, and tears.
The funeral of former president Jimmy Carter featured a surprise eulogy from the late former president Gerald Ford, the Republican he ousted from the presidency in a bitter 1976 race but went on to befriend in the kind of Washington relationship that now seems like a relic of a bygone era.
"Throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be practitioner of good works, a good and faithful servant of God and of the people," Biden said of Carter.
Ford said he and Carter agreed the US should more directly take on “the Palestinian issue” in order to work toward lasting peace in the Middle East. That ruffled feathers in Washington, according to Ford’s remarks, written so many years ago. It also feels today like a warning that was not sufficiently heeded by the US government.