“Carter Dies At 100 After Life Guided By Moral Principles” read the Page One story in the Financial Times, leading to a tribute by veteran FT correspondent Jurek Martin that hailed the 39th president as one who devoted his post-White House years “to the sort of problems that he thought an engineer with a highly developed social conscience could solve.”

That is how most Americans and people worldwide are characterizing Jimmy Carter — overtaken by problems at home and abroad while president, his qualities as an upright and moral man shined as a former president.

But there was another side to Carter that those who watched him in past years recognized: a driven, win-at-all-costs politician and one whose meddling with the Department of Justice to punish opponents could only be labeled “weaponization.”

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