Politics wasn’t so much a life choice he made, as the culmination of a sequence of events. “I was the chairman of the school board, and I was concerned about the public school system,” he tells me. “I served as governor for as long as the constitution would permit me, and after that I ran for president in 1975. As you probably know, I was elected.”

I heard, I say. Was there really never a master plan?

“Not at all. It was always just the next step. When I told my mother I was running for president, she said, president of what?”

- Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’, The Observer, September 11, 2011.

About the author:

Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.

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