“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The country was thirsting for moral renewal and for Carter, as this genuinely religious figure, to come in and clean things up."

"The two of them together changed the world," he said, overcome with emotion. James "Chip" Carter speaks during a service for former President Jimmy Carter at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta,

There are only hours left to say goodbye to former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta before he’s flown to Washington, D.C. The 39th president of the United States, who died Sunday, Dec. 29, at the age of 100,