Jimmy Carter’s funeral briefly united America around the greatness of this President in ways many had forgotten.
Among his multiple achievements that now are under attack by Donald Trump are:
The Panama Canal Treaty, which resolved a basic wrong in the proper way.
The Department of Education, which was separated from its original home, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Major Environmental Accomplishments, the most of any one term President, at least until Joe Biden.
The basic characteristics of Morality, Ethics, Compassion and Decency that Carter represented.
And now, Trump has raised the flag to full staff at Mar a Lago, against the 30 day mourning period for any President who has died, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has ordered the flag in the US Capitol raised for the Trump inauguration, defying the respect due to Carter having been President.
In 1973, Harry Truman had died on December 26, and when Richard Nixon was reinaugurated on January 20, 1973, the flag remained at half staff, but now that respect is being defied!