ATLANTA — People gathered at Manuel’s Tavern in Atlanta on Monday night to comfort one another and reflect on Jimmy Carter’s passing.
Carter would meet with the tavern’s owner Manuel Maloof to talk and eat.
He announced his run for Georgia governor there in 1970.
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Carter and Maloof were good friends.
They were both in politics at the time.
After Carter went on to become Georgia’s governor, then a president and a Nobel prize winner, he would always make his way back to Manuel’s Tavern.
Longtime patron Pete Schoen remembers it well.
“If you were sitting from the bar, all of a sudden - always from the back entrance, these stern-looking secret service guys would kind of burst in and look around everywhere,” Schoen told Channel 2′s Michael Doudna.
Eve McClennon made the pilgrimage to Carter’s hometown of Plains for one of his Sunday school teachings and remembered a man speaking about his own challenges to live a better life.
“Just to say that to people was so profound, beautiful, and real,” McClennon said.
Susan Graham, who met Carter after working to eradicate the Guinea worm and save lives in Africa, said, “I think he’s a great example of putting others above oneself.”
And then there were those who never had the chance to meet him, but admired how he lived.
They decided to come to one of his favorite spots to remember his life.
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