Biden says Jimmy Carter’s ‘enduring attribute’ was character.; The New York Times, January 9, 2025

Michael D. Shear, The New York Times; Biden says Jimmy Carter’s ‘enduring attribute’ was character.

 "Mr. Biden spent little time recounting Mr. Carter’s accomplishments, as had already been done by other speakers at the funeral. Instead, he focused on “Jimmy Carter’s enduring attribute: character, character, character.”

He said that character was the reason he endorsed Mr. Carter’s presidential campaign in the 1970s, well before many other Democratic politicians. He said it was Mr. Carter’s character that allowed him to survive in a world of powerful pressures.

“It is the story of a man who never let the ties of politics divert him from his mission to serve and shape the world,” he said. “The man had character.”"