Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. He is the only U.S. president to ever do that.

It's just one more evidence of the deep determination in a man that most people miss

“Don’t pay any attention to that smile. That don’t mean a thing.”

That is one of my favorite quotes about Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. It was uttered by a Georgia politician, Ben Fortson, who got to see Carter’s determination up close when he was governor of that state.¹

Now the whole world sees another example of Jimmy Carter’s…