Califano wrote years ago about how Carter would have meetings with groups of citizens. They would tell Carter their concerns, and Carter, with furrowed brow, would fill page after page of a legal pad with notes. The instant the concerned citizens left the room, the pages of notes went in the waste basket.
Carter was also reported to have been carrying his own
(empty) luggage and (empty) garment bags from the White
House to impress regular people. I reckon he has been doing
a good work in Habitat for Humanity and at the Carter
Library in “conflict resolution” IF you’re a Palestinian
and not a JEW! According to Rosalyn, when they left
Washington, they couldn’t even afford a decent fridge in
order to keep their ice-cream frozen & could only keep
ice-cream half-frozen. (Surely, the half-million annual
salary they’ve been drawing should be enough to get a
new “energy efficient” model.)