I badly wanted to cast my first presidential ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1976, but I wasn't old enough to vote.
I turned 18 four days days after the election. Carter was 52. Today, nearly five decades later, I'm in my 60s and he's 98. The Carter Center announced last week that he was entering hospice care and would forgo further medical treatment for his various ailments, choosing to spend his remaining days at home with his family.
Even all these years later, I remain impressed by Carter, and especially by the staunch and stoic way he has allowed his moral compass to guide his life.
