It was meant to be a solemn goodbye, a state funeral for America’s longest-living president, Jimmy Carter. But amid the silence of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., an unexpected conversation was unfolding between two of America’s most famous political…

There was a time when major championship venues were selected largely on the merits of the golf course, but that was back around the time that Jimmy Carter had to place his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid…