I WOULD HAVE LIKED a second term, I can say that now,” Carter told The Washington Post in 2013, at age 88. So many years later, and with all he would accomplish, he was still thinking about the loss. In January 1981 he, Rosalynn and Amy returned to his hometown of Plains, Ga. After a period of feeling depressed, he had a revelation, one of Carter’s biographers, Kai Bird, told The New York Times. “One night, in January 1982, Mrs. Carter was startled to see him sitting up in bed, wide-awake. She asked him if he was feeling ill. ‘I know what we can do,’ he replied. ‘We can develop a place to help people who want to resolve disputes.’”
From that idea came the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit…