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In reply to the discussion: Who do you think will give the eulogy for Jimmy Carter if he someday dies? [View all]Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)54. That's the engineer in him
Jimmy Carter had been an engineer. He had also been a Baptist missionary. Both identities, in their different ways, converged on the same habit of thought: that there was a Correct Way to do thingsonly one. The engineer believed that a solitary individual, working assiduously with the right tools and information, with enough ingenuity and perseverance and a clear and clever mindall of which Jimmy Carter possessedcould arrive at the right solution to any problem. And for the devout Baptist, no less than for the engineer, a conviction, once arrived at, was something tocommunicate, not to compromise.
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Who do you think will give the eulogy for Jimmy Carter if he someday dies? [View all]
Capt. Obvious
Aug 2015
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