• Chip Carter is the second son of former President Jimmy Carter, who died last year. • Chip says he became closer to his father by caring for him over the past six years. • He says his father taught him to argue both sides of an issue and to volunteer.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chip Carter. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I learned from my dad, Jimmy Carter, that you don't retire. I'm 75 now, but if I told my dad I'm getting old, he would laugh. He didn't slow down until he was about 94, and he was 100 when he died last December.

Dad wouldn't want me sitting still in my old age, so this year I'm leading the 39th Annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in his honor. I cried during the opening ceremony, because it's the

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