It’s September 1998, and I’m at lunch with several other journalists and a grandmother. As I sip my Coke, I hear a friendly male voice.
You can tell he’s smiling. “Time to shake hands now,” he says. We’re at the Carter Center in Atlanta for a few days. The other reporters and I have received Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism.
The grandma sitting with us is former first lady Rosalynn Carter, and the man with the warm smile is former President Jimmy Carter. “As soon as we get on a plane,” Mrs.
Carter says, “Jimmy walks down the aisles and shakes hands with everybody. He knows they want to say hi to him.” Jimmy Carter died Dec.