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David Smith in Washington

Joe Biden speaks for a vanishing age in eulogy praising Jimmy Carter’s decency

a man in front of microphone as rows of people sitting look at him
Joe Biden delivers the eulogy during the state funeral for Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC, on Thursday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

“Character. Character. Character.”

Speaking from the pulpit of a hushed Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, Joe Biden seemed to be eulogising something bigger than the late US president who lay in a stars and stripes-draped casket before him.

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