Before Vice President Kamala Harris, the last presidential candidate Jimmy Carter voted for, or President Joe Biden, the first senator who endorsed Carter’s bid for president in 1976, could pay tribute to the late president, House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke about his remembering the president being sworn in.
“I’m reminded of his admonition to live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon, and of his amazing personal reflection: ‘If I have one life and one chance, to make it count for something,’ We all agree that he certainly did,” Johnson said in his closing remarks under the Rotunda with Carter’s casket by his side.
