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When I visited several years ago, someone at the visitors center said they owned plots at the cemetery near the boyhood farm. The article you referenced says otherwise, so maybe plans have changed. Hopefully we won’t know for a while.

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Indeed, well said. I hope we are well away from having to learn that.

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Thank you for a beautiful reminder of this great man. A model for how an ex-president should conduct himself. We were lucky to have him. We didn't know it at the time it seems.

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Very much agree! A good human being and we are lucky he chose to enter public life and stay there after his first term. Rosalynn made the point once that he should have won a second term, but had he done so, the Carter Center would never have happened. And how sad would that be.

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I think he was miserable in the job of president. Not everyone is suited for it. Much better ex president, even in terms of his diplomacy and statesmanship.

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The best ex-president we ever had! And very true. Diplomacy/statesmanship were one of his strong suits as president , dramatically challenged, of course, with Iran.

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