LOU BERNARD
AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis
President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife, Rosalynn, and their daughter, Amy, along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration in Washington, Jan. 20, 1977.
I have this Christmas card on my desk. It’s been there for a couple of years now. It has a photo of a nice older couple, wishing me a nice holiday, and it’s personally signed.
The couple is former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, and Carter is the one who signed it.
I’ve received a couple of similar cards from him over the years. The question would be why. And the answer, I suspect, is because I’m the historian in his favorite place in the world.