"Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes."

— Jimmy Carter, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1977

WASHINGTON — More than 31 years after he uttered those words, America still is trying to compensate for and minimize Jimmy Carter's mistakes and weaknesses, the greatest of which appears to be hubris. This week, our much-traveled 39th president ventured as a "private citizen" to the Middle East ...

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