I had the immense pleasure of meeting President and Mrs Carter several years ago and they could not have been more generous, kind, and welcoming. He was wickedly funny and had a way of speaking that sucked you into whatever he was saying, enraptured.
Gil's post above captures the essence of why I believe history will be far kinder to his presidency than it has been, but regardless of that, he was not only a great man but a good one.
RIP, Mr. President. Thank you for the immense good you have done for the world, thank you for the time you gave to a nobody like me, and thank you for the example you set, even if today it seems as though we have gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction. I don't pretend to know what if anything comes after this life, but the thought of you and Rosalynn somehow being reunited makes me happy. May your memory continue to be an inspiration.