And for more now in the life and legacy of President Carter.

We're joined by our own Judy Woodruff, who has covered Jimmy Carter since before he was elected president.

Also, presidential historian Barbara Perry from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

And Stuart Eisenstadt, who was domestic policy advisor to President Carter, and as you heard, spoke at the funeral today with a welcome to all of you.

I want to start there, Stuart Eisenstadt, with you.

Your remarks at the funeral service today, you said you sought to redeem the Carter presidency and reframe the public understanding of it,

that in your view, his accomplishments were more enduring than most modern presidents. What inspired you to have that as your

message today? Because it's always rankled me that people say he's the best ex-president we've had,

and that's probably true, but that is an implicit way of saying, but he wasn't a successful president.

And I meant by redeeming that it's now time after the election loss we suffered, for sure,

and after over 40 years, 10 times more time than he spent in the White House,

to take a real look at what he did.

And what he did was extraordinary.

We got 70% of our legislation through.

We made the country go from energy dependence

to energy security. He was a great environmental president, a great civil rights president,

appointing more blacks and women to senior positions than all 38 presidents before him.

In foreign policy, his combination of human rights and hard power building up our

military really helped end the Cold War. Camp David is, to my mind, the greatest single

presidential act of diplomacy in American history without, that's all forgotten. So it's

now time to go back and take a look. I tried to do that

in my book, President Carter of the White House years, but this gave me a unique opportunity to talk

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