Ross: I admit having a soft spot for President Jimmy Carter

The Carter Center announced over the weekend that former President Jimmy Carter is now in hospice.

I admit having a soft spot for Jimmy Carter, because I covered him when he was Governor of Georgia. I’ll always remember his open door policy. The trick was to wait until the press aide outside the office took a break, and then, if the governor’s door was open, you could just walk in. And he would give an interview.

Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, enters hospice care at home

I saw first-hand his determination to follow his conscience — how he would write out a press statement in longhand on a legal

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