MY WORKSITE EXPERIENCE WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT
Photo by Robin Jonathan Deutsch on Unsplash
It was the early days of Habitat for Humanity, still somewhat controversial in the 1980s south. I had signed up with a group building a couple of houses in Atlanta.
The second weekend of our project, here came Jimmy Carter, in overalls, with tool belt. (Rosalynn, uncharacteristically, wasn’t with him. She might have had a cold.) There must have been Secret Service people around; maybe they had to pitch in. I remember almost nothing about the day other than how hard we worked. Days started early and ended late, but we didn’t finish our house as had been the plan.
What I do remember was showing up the next day to finish the job. And turning around to see that Jimmy Carter was already at work.
If only I’d had an iPhone.