Former president Jimmy Carter can add Grammy Award winner to Nobel Peace Prize winner. Carter was not present to accept but he won in the best spoken word category for "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis." Carter tied with Ruby Dee and her late husband, Ossie Davis, who won for the reading of their autobiography "Wikth Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together."
Dee, looking terrific in a blue suit, was present and accepted the Grammy for herself and her husband. "How exciting it is to be celebrating the spoken word." Dee referred to Davis in the present tense "because I truly believe he is here with us today. ..We had to beg him to do this and thank God we had a year to get it done.... We owe it to our children and their children to tell our stories so they will have a sense of themselves."
All five nominees in the category are forces to be reckoned with. They also included Bob Newhart's "I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!" Bill Maher's "New Rules - Polite Musings From a Timid Observer," and Al Franklin's "The Truth About Jokes."