A winter storm was sweeping across a wide swath of the South on Friday. Atlantaβs airport issued a ground stop after a plane was evacuated onto a snowy runway.
The police arrested a person who tried to enter the consulate with a weapon, and then opened fire outside the entrance to the building, which is near Atlanta.
The gestures of remembrance have all been selected to reflect the 39th presidentβs rural roots and political career in Georgia and Washington, and his legacy of global advocacy.
Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former presidentβs ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, βdoesnβt seem real.β
The former president had kicked off his campaign for Georgia governor at Manuelβs Tavern in Atlanta. On Sunday, workers and patrons at the bar raised a glass in his honor.
Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad.