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Vote Of The Century

I heard a while back that former President Jimmy Carter1 said he just wanted to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris for President of the United States. He's 100yrs old. He's been in Hospice care for over a year, and all he wanted to do was make it long enough to cast his vote.

Today, he got his wish.

Thanks to mail-in voting, his ballot is cast.

Learning that made me more emotional than I was ready for. It was a kind of catharsis. A little bit of relief from the stresses of the world brought on by witnessing something going right.

Meeting The Man

I've been fortunate enough to met President Carter a few times in my life. The earliest of which was captured here (which I don't actually remember).

A signed picture hanging on the wall showing me as a little kid being held by Jimmy Carter.

My dad was a reporter who covered Carter while he was on the campaign trail and then again as part of the White House Press Corps. This photo is from one of his old press photographer buddies.

A common President Carter story is that of an amazing ability to remember people. I've seen it first hand. My dad died in 1997. Over a decade and a half after Carter left office and somehow he found out and sent his condolences.

Here's hoping we get to live in a world where all our Presidents show such care for folks other than themselves.

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Footnotes

Honestly, I know very little about the Carter administration. The main thing I remember hearing is that he put solar heating water panels on the roof of the White House which Reagan had removed.