WATCH LIVE: Judy Woodruff on the life and legacy of President Jimmy Carter

Americans are paying tribute this week to former President Jimmy Carter, who died last month at the age of 100.

Carter, the longest-living US president, has been honored this week with memorial ceremonies in Georgia and the US capital. He will be buried Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after an official state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.

PBS News special correspondent Judy Woodruff has covered the former president and his family since the 1970s, when Woodruff was a reporter covering politics in Carter’s home state of Georgia.

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In a tribute to former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died in November 2023 at age 96, Woodruff recalled covering the Carters as a young couple and spoke of the former first lady’s work ethic.

“She did so much, worked so hard throughout her life, in the White House and in the many years before and since, fighting for the rights of the underserved, coming to the aid of the most vulnerable and doing what she could to improve the lives of others life: So she would not regret that she had not done all that was in her power to do,” Woodruff said.

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When Woodruff sat down with Carter’s in 2021when they celebrated 75 years of marriage, she asked Carter what he was most proud of during his time as president.

“Well, we’re very proud to have been elected and to have served as president. That’s the epitome of our life, I think, in its entirety. And I will say that we did what we promised in the campaign. We kept the peace , and we obeyed the law, and we told the truth, and we honored human rights. Those were things that were important to me,” Carter said.

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