Boston political consultant Michael Goldman says Jimmy Carter's legacy of public service was so stunning that no other president in American history will ever come close to matching it.
By Evan Ringle and Erin LoganWhen President Jimmy Carter asked Boston political consultant Michael Goldman to run his re-election campaign in Florida, his answer wasn't what you might have expected.
"I said, 'Are you crazy? I'm not gonna be the only person in Massachusetts who's not with Ted Kennedy. You've gotta be out of your mind.' I turned it down, and Kennedy lost, and [Carter] lost too." It was that crushing defeat to former President Ronald Reagan that ended Carter's presidency. But it put him front and center as a great American diplomat.
"He had the ability over the last 45 or 46 years to re-create who he was," said Goldman."Winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and going all over the world. Probably our best-known former president internationally."Sign up for NECN newsletters. When a statement from the Carter Center on Saturday, Feb. 18 revealed that the 98-year-old former president was beginning hospice care at home after a long battle with cancer, political leaders on a local and national level spoke about Carter's valuable contributions during his presidency, and even more so
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