Jimmy Carter liked to eat at the Pit Stop in Thomaston, Ga. That was where the future president met a boy who would grow up to be a state trooper.

Following the state funeral in Washington, President Carter's remains will then be transported from the nation's capitol, back to Georgia, where a private ceremony will take place at Maranatha Baptist Church, the church in Plains where Carter taught Sunday school for years.

When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four Puerto Rican nationalists who attacked members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s, he cited “humane considerations.