What Jimmy Carter can teach us about life and our legacy
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Not only is America saying goodbye to a president, but behind the protocol and pageantry, the Carters are saying goodbye to a father, a grandfather, an uncle, and a friend.
Our legacies are not written after we are gone but are written with every day of our lives. Peggy Grande was executive assistant to President Ronald Reagan and is author of "The President Will See You Now." She was a political appointee in the Trump administration and serves on the board of Pepperdine School of Public Policy, and the board of The Center for American Ideas.
This must be an especially difficult time for the Carter family as they said goodbye to Rosalynn in November of last year. The former first lady had been diagnosed with dementia and entered hospice care just two days prior to her passing. Surprisingly, President Carter entered hospice care in February 2023, but outlived his wife by more than a year. The Carters were married for 77 years – the longest presidential marriage in American history. They will be buried side by side on their property in Plains, Georgia, where they lived for more than 60 years.