reporter: sitting down with us in his san mateo home, environmentalist and author robert coghlan has many fond memories working alongside jimmy carter, a relationship that started in the early 1970's when coghlan made a request to governor carter of georgia to help him lobby against a dam proposed along the stanislaus river. >> i asked him to come to california to help us out, and he did. reporter: the two formed a bond over their shared passion for mother earth. coghlan joined carter in the white house. >> he asked me to be a chairman of the california conservationists. reporter: in addition to remembering his environmental work, coghlan admires the 39th president for being a different kind of politician. >> he didn't steal any documents or cause anybody to go to jail or anything. we never stole anybody's money. carter shows that you can be a politician and you can be a president and you can be a good person. reporter: it is those fond memories that made the 98-year-old's entry to hospice care bittersweet. >> it is sad in a way, but it is ok. it is a predictable thing. he lived a go

dion: coghlan says no matter how much longer carter has, he will forever hold onto these memories. >> i will always be proud to be part of jimmy carter's team and i will always be honored to have been his friend. liz: robert coghlan shared many more stories of jimmy carter, including his time working with dianne feinstein in his book. it turns out our very own abc 7 weather anchor spencer christian has known jimmy carter since the late 1980's. their first interview together was in 1988 on "good morning america" at the carter presidential library in atlanta, georgia. spencer emcee'd plenty of carter's events, including two of his birthdays. during our 11:00 news last night, spencer spoke with dion about the 39th president. spencer: i have had lots of interaction. been very fortunate. lots of interaction with the carters, especially president carter over the years. he is a remarkable person. arguably the finest person i have ever met. liz: spencer went on to mention former president carter is a devoted philanthropist. for more than 30 years, carter and his wife roslyn have been advocate

liz: robert coghlan shared many more stories of jimmy carter, including his time working with dianne feinstein in his book. it turns out our very own weather anchor spencer christian has known jimmy carter since the late 1980's. their first interview together was in 1988 on good morning america at the carter presidential library in atlanta, georgia. spencer and seed plenty of carter's events, including two of his birthdays. during our newscast last night, spencer spoke with dion about his relationship with him. >> i have had lots of interaction. been very fortunate. bots of interaction with the carter's, especially president carter over the years. he is a were markable person. arguably the finest person i have ever met. liz: spencer went on to mention former president carter is a devoted philanthropist for more than 30 years. carter and his wife roslyn have been advocates and volunteers for habitat for humanity. moving on, anaheim police say a woman has died after she either jumped or accidentally fell from a parking structure at disneyland last night. officers say when they arrived,

mrs. bay coghlan, one of 9 jewish communities in the occupied west bank that israel security cabinet has rolled to authorize. these were so called while settlements considered illegal outposts, according to israeli law, built without government permission, but that's about to change. so mcmillan didn't like we heard about the news, we were excited happy. we came out dance together including the kids, even though some kids were already asleep. we're happy to continue building israel to see this country growing bigger and blooming hustler as a shuffler. steven my wife and i was sitting on the couch at home, and suddenly we heard the news saying we were tearing up. we were excited and we wanted to celebrate with our neighbors. we've been waiting for these for a long time. some of these outposts started with 4 families, he guess was among them. in 7 years, it grew to 35 families. that's around 100 people, most of whom i children. there are only residential houses here and a synagogue kids go to school in the nearby settlement. the nearest shop a some 20 kilometers away. but locals believ

joining us to talk more about carter's life and legacy is rob coghlan. he is a lifelong san mateo resident and someone who worked with the carter administration. rob, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you for asking. >> well, rob, let's talk a little bit about what people should know about jimmy carter. kept a pretty low public profile recently, but what was it like working with him in? what was your biggest takeaway? >> that's hard to he was a wonderful guy who is a great cause. he was hard. it was serious, but it is always a southern gentleman. i i will have nothing but witness in all 4. >> rob, i understand that you have done a lot of environmental work in your career. i think specifically you're working with a division of environmentalism within that the carter correct me if i'm wrong on that. but environmentalism already environment? really something that you saw as being something an important to jimmy carter. >> i got to know jimmy carter. he came in help us when we're trying to stop the army corps of engineers from building a dam on the riv