The political world stopped for two hours last Thursday as it bade farewell to Jimmy Carter. The idea that character matters in politics may have gone with him.
Carter is famously known as “the best ex-president ever.” The moniker is a little reductive for a man who achieved a peace most thought impossible, won a Nobel prize and set the country on a path toward economic recovery from stagnation during the 1970s.
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