"...that I will faithfully execute..."

Our second stop today was to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, which is just down the street from the Martin Luther King, Jr. NHS. In fact, they're both connected by the Freedom Parkway, just off I-75. On the same grounds as the library and museum is the Carter Center, an NGO created to “to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".

This makes my fifth Presidential library (Truman, LBJ, JFK and FDR are the others) and I have to say, this might be my favorite. Maybe. JFK's is in an I.M. Pei edifice and that's pretty banging. Still - this is a wonderful building and the three of us had a great time.

I kept asking Kyle where he wanted his Presidential library. He looked at me like I started speaking Farsi. I do think though that he should dream about what he can achieve and then shoot past it.

Jimmy Carter started out as the son of a prominent Georgia businessman. He chose to leave his hometown of Plains, to join the nascent U.S. nuclear submarine fleet. He served under the imposing Hyman G. Rickover, the 'Father of the Nuclear Navy'. When his father passed in 1953, he immediately resigned his commission. As people were coming by the house, telling his son about how James Earl Carter, Sr. affected their lives with his compassion and kindness, James Earl Carter, Jr. (Jimmy) realized that he could positively affect more people coming back to Plains than he could serving in the Navy.

Every Presidential Library has a replica of the Oval Office. I'll post more pictures of that later, but here's a great photo of Kyle and my mother in that hallowed (if fake) space.

Tomorrow - Georgia's great Stone Mountain, and some of its history