The December death of former President Jimmy Carter – still honored with flags at half-staff except by felon Donald Trump and his MAGAts – produced predictable “tributes.”
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A Tale of Two Presidents
The first vote I cast in a presidential election was for Jimmy Carter in the 1976 New York primary. Carter came in fourth, after Senators Henry Jackson and Morris Udall and a slate of uncommitted delegates. Yet I bet two friends that the Georgia governor would win the nomination and go on to victory in November—the last political bet I ever won.