As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.

The funeral of former president Jimmy Carter featured a 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.

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.

Donald Trump and Barack Obama had plenty to chat about at ... president Walter Mondale and his White House predecessor Gerald Ford.

President Biden on Monday named Navy aircraft carriers after former Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. “I am proud to announce that the next two Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft

A state funeral is a gathering of the Washington clans, a convocation of the very establishment that Trump has pledged to destroy in his second term. Carter was not a clubbable man and his self-conscious piety was sometimes an irritant for his successors. He was the uneasiest member of the ex-president’s club apart from Trump.

The state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter was held at Washington National Cathedral Thursday on what President Biden proclaimed a national day of mourning.

President Biden eulogized the former president, while Steve Ford, the son of President Gerald ... living former presidents — Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and George W. Bush. The service follows ...

FILE — From left, former President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter meet in the Oval ...

WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford ... Bush, his father, Clinton and President-elect Barack Obama are seen clustered in front of the Resolute Desk.

It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a funeral.

Jimmy Carter, first former American president to live to 100, was eulogized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday morning and will be remembered before a second service and burial back in his Georgia hometown of Plains.