So I did some research. I could find no indication that either bush honored Jimmy Carter

[cali]

Inspired by Octafish's post in his thread, I spent about 20 minutes putting in every search term I could possibly think of. No dice. It's not de rigueur for a President to honor a former President of the opposing party at the White House. President Obama was under no etiquette obligation to do so.

I don't think this is a huge deal, but I found it interesting. It just seems like a one way street: Democrats do it. Repubs? Not so much. President Obama has now honored both pere et fils. I take nothing nefarious from this, but it seems to follow a general trend.

[MrSlayer]

1. They all hate Carter.

Even Clinton.

Because Carter doesn't give a fuck about anything but doing the right thing, politics be damned.

Read "The Presidents Club" for full details. Great book.

[cali]

2. Thanks for the recommendation!

[Laelth]

3. That, in fact, is one of the reasons I am so fond of President Carter. n/t

-Laelth

[leftyohiolib]

4. b/c they all have the same goal carter didnt follow the plan

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. There is a lot of truth to that

One only wishes Jimmy Carter would issue a candid, tell-all memoir before we lose him.

[fadedrose]

6. And he was so deserving . . . still is . . . not too late......nt

[deutsey]

7. All the Reaganites did after 1980 was blame Carter for anything they fucked up n/t

[SidDithers]

8. Here's Carter saying nice things about Bush Sr...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jimmy-carter-to-george-w-bush-im-filled-with-admiration-for-you-for-your-help-to-most-needy/

Speaking at the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Library on Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter offered Bush warm thanks and congratulations for his tenure as the nation’s commander-in-chief. Carter praised Bush’s commitment to peace in obscure global hotspots and added that Bush’s commitment to help the “most needy people on earth” earned his admiration.
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Carter began the speech by noting that he asked Bush to focus on the civil conflict in Sudan in the opening days of his presidency. He noted that Bush made good on his word to focus on securing peace in that conflict.
Cater turned to Bush’s focus on reducing poverty and combating disease in the developing world during his tenure in the White House.
“He increased the development insistence to Africa, from the time he went in office until he left, from 1.4 billion dollars to more than 9 billion dollars,” Carter said. “He established the PEPFAR program – there were 50,000 HIV sufferers in Africa being treated when he came in office. When he left office, for a year, 2 million.”
“Let me say that I’m filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you about the great contributions you’ve made to the most needy people on earth,” Carter concluded.

Sid

[Nye Bevan]

9. Ronald Reagan on Jimmy Carter:

In one of its aspects, the story of President Carter is the story of the family in which he grew up. Jimmy Carter's father taught him the virtues of hard work and self-discipline: From the time he was 6, he knew that when the farm bell rang James Earl, Sr., expected to see him out of bed and going to work with everybody else.

He and his sisters and brother—Gloria, Ruth, and Billy—gave each other strength and support; Ruth especially providing counsel through all the long years, all the joys and disappointments, until her death in 1983. He misses her still, as do all who knew her. And then there was Miss Lillian—exuberant Miss Lillian, Miss Lillian who went to work for the Peace Corps in India at the age of 69. Miss Lillian taught Jimmy Carter charity and justice. She taught him to care for all, regardless of race, especially those weaker and less fortunate than himself. And she taught him to laugh. Surely, Mr. President, James Earl, Sr., Ruth, and your precious mother, Miss Lillian, are with us today as we dedicate this Center in honor of one who loved you so much.

In another of its important aspects, the story of President Carter is a story of the South. For when Jimmy Carter was born on this date in 1924, many southerners knew only poverty, and millions lived lives that were separate and unequal because of the color of their skin. There's a photograph inside the Library that sets the scene: A little boy is drinking from a fountain. He is black. He's drinking from that particular fountain because on a tree next to the fountain there's a sign that reads "Colored." Well, the world has changed now. It has changed because men and women like Jimmy Carter stood up in church to protest the exclusion of black people from worship, and it has changed because Jimmy Carter spoke those words in his inauguration address as Governor of Georgia: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over... No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice."

That old world has been replaced by a new South, a South that combines the best regional traditions of pride and hospitality with a new sense of openness and opportunity for all. For at the same time they were combating discrimination, southerners like Jimmy Carter were hard at work—applying new techniques to farming, opening new businesses, and encouraging new industry. Arid in so doing, they were expanding economic opportunity and raising levels of education at historic rates. One need only look at Atlanta—bustling, prosperous Atlanta—to see that the South has truly risen again, transformed, self-confident, moving vigorously on to still greater justice and opportunity. So, in dedicating this Center today, I want to express what all of us feel today in this beautiful Georgia landscape: That this celebration is in a sense a celebration of the South—the new South that Jimmy Carter helped to build.

Yes, yours is a powerful story of family and region. Yet for all that, Mr. President, I cannot help thinking that, in perhaps its most important regard, yours is a story of dedication to so many of the fundamental values that made our nation flourish and grow great. Certainly the value of hard work is apparent throughout your life. There were those early days of manual labor on the family farm; then came the years in the Navy, working for a man never known for being an easy taskmaster, Captain, later Admiral, Hyman Rickover. Jimmy Carter distinguished himself under Captain Rickover for his application to duty, for using his gifts—in particular, his superb intelligence—to the utmost. He would likewise distinguish himself when he returned to the family farm and expanded it, again in his early political life as State senator and Governor, and perhaps most dramatically in those 2 grueling years during which he made political history, going from "Jimmy Who?," to use the cartoonists' phrase, to 39th President of the United States.

Beyond hard work, there are the values of perseverance, loyalty, and family. I've already mentioned the family in which President Carter grew up, but of course I must mention the family he and Rosalynn raised. And as a grandfather myself, I can't resist pointing out that the Carters' four children have been joined by four grandchildren. And then there's perhaps the most basic value of all: the value of faith—faith that endures, faith that gives strength and consolation and joy. President Carter is above all a man of faith; time and again throughout his life, at moments great and small, President Carter has turned to prayer. When he learned that President Kennedy had been assassinated, Jimmy Carter knelt outside the farm warehouse in prayer. When he became President himself, it was prayer that sustained him. He knew that—well, he knew what I have learned myself—that, as Lincoln put it, the burdens of the highest office in the land would be intolerable without the help of the Almighty. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that when he got up this morning President Carter said a prayer of thanks for all that would happen on this day. So it is that when we dedicate this Center, Mr. President, we dedicate an institution that testifies, as does your life itself, to the goodness of God and to the blessings He bestows upon those who do their best to walk with Him. I can think of no greater gift that you could make to our nation.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=36520