President Biden issued an executive order on Monday to close federal agencies and offices next month in recognition of former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at 100 in his home in Plains, Georgia.

Much like the executive order Biden signed on Dec. 19 giving federal employees a day off for Christmas Eve, the measure covers all executive departments and agencies, except employees in positions of “national security, defense, or other public need.”

Carter, who oversaw the most significant reform of the federal civil service in the last 50 years during his single term in office, was the longest living president in U.S. history.

Despite notable accomplishments as president, his time out of the White House may have arguably eclipsed his tenure as chief executive, including decades of humanitarian work leading to the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

The day off for federal employees follows recent precedent, as President Trump similarly closed agencies when President George H.W. Bush died in 2018.

In accompanying guidance, Office of Personnel Management acting Director Rob Shriver said all federal employees would be excused from duty Jan. 9 “except those who, in the judgment of the head of the agency, cannot be excused for reasons of national security, defense, or other essential public business.”