TODAY the world bids farewell to Jimmy Carter inside the ring of steel at the Washington National Cathedral – where each living US leader will be present. The 39th and longest-living ...
Let’s imagine that Franklin D. Roosevelt had possessed the same gift for longevity as Jimmy Carter and lived until he was 100. He would have died in1982, in Ronald Reagan’s second year in office.
Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...