Bob CollinsFrom the “things we learned today” file comes this.
When President Jimmy Carter gets on an airline flight, he shakes everyone’s hand on the flight.
What other #POTUS would come by and shake hands with everyone on his flight? pic.twitter.com/0TViw1fNXZ
— hari sreenivasan (@hari) January 13, 2015
To prove it wasn’t a one-shot deal: It also happened on Sunday.
Former pres. Jimmy Carter shaking everyones hand on @Delta flight. What a class act. #america pic.twitter.com/FDS7KeGo1g
— Nicholas Vickroy (@NVAlexander) January 11, 2015
This revelation sent us scurrying for video. Surely, there’s video.
Like this, from 2009,
“It saves me from having them come up to see me during the flight,” he told the New Yorker in 2006.
Related: 'Watch out, Guinea worm, here comes Jimmy Carter' (NPR).
