Our 39th president gave me a lift both physical and spiritual. I could never thank him enough for what that experience did ...

I always knew President Jimmy Carter couldn’t live forever. I just wanted him to. It sounds selfish, and impossible, all at once and especially now, upon word of his passing at age 100 on Sunday.

Frantic, I stood on the sidewalk near President Carter’s limo, finally asking a Secret Service agent I’d met earlier in the week if he knew how I could get a ride. He didn’t. Until President ...