The recent funeral of former President Jimmy Carter has become the backdrop for political tensions as former President George W. Bush seemingly declined to shake the hand of President-elect Donald Trump.
The Marine One/4141 Pavilion featured a special National Day of Mourning guestbook for people to sign their names and leave condolences to the late president and his family.
George W. Bush gave fellow former president Barack Obama a friendly belly tap at the Jan. 9 funeral of Jimmy Carter, and the internet was obsessed with the viral moment.
WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush's casual greeting of former President Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter's state funeral is going viral online. Obama was seated next to President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, ahead of the service Thursday at Washington National Cathedral in the nation's capital.
Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.
One of the first calls Obama made after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 was to George W. Bush to spread the word that the mission had been accomplished, said Kate Andersen Brower, author of “Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump.”
Bush has been largely absent from politics since leaving the White House, but has been critical of the GOP under Trump's leadership
US is marking a day of national mourning for Jimmy Carter, who died in December at the age of 100, less than two weeks before the White House changes hands from President Joe Biden to President-elect Trump.
President Jimmy Carter was honored in a state funeral in Washington on Thursday, alongside a private memorial in Georgia.
Three days after the Jan. 6 anniversary, with its indelible images of costumed rioters running amok in the Capitol, former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral service in the National Cathedral presented a historical picture of a different kind, one that spoke not of upended norms, but of preservation and strength.