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Jimmy Carter often flouted ceremony. He will be honored in Washington, where he remained an outsider

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Jimmy Carter's remains will be transported to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday .

The 39th president will lie in state Tuesday night and again Wednesday .

He then receives a state funeral Thursday at Washington National Cathedral .

Carter often flouted ceremonial trappings that have been on display in Georgia and will continue in Washington .

More than 23,000 people came to honor the former president at his library.

“He was also a complicated man, who took his defeat and did so much good in the world,” said Brad Webb , an Army veteran who voted for Ford in 1976 and Reagan in 1980 .

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English

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