Roanoke's Rupert Cutler on what it was like to work for Jimmy Carter

Roanoke's Rupert Cutler on what it was like to work for Jimmy Carter

It was cold in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 1977, when Jimmy Carter was sworn in as 39th president of the United States. Despite this wintry weather, unlike that in their native South, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter of Plains, Georgia, walked briskly and smilingly, hand in hand, down icy Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, where he would run a tight ship for the next four years.As I recall, it was even colder that day in Ontonag…