(WGHP) -- There are a number of people from the Piedmont Triad who either worked for President Jimmy Carter’s administration in the White House or worked for his campaigns. Very few got to spend significant time with Carter away from the professional sarcophagus that the White House can be. It’s there that you can get to know someone during long talks over dinner and a glass of wine with no reporters recording every word. That’s how Bob Wilson and his wife Annika got to know the former president and his wife Rosalynn. Wilson had a construction company and was well known for his knowledge of the construction industry, so the former president tapped into that expertise when he was working with Habitat for Humanity. “The president asked me after the Carter Project to stay with him and help promote his work with Habitat, and I served for the next six years as the national director of ... President Carter's work with Habitat for Humanity,” Wilson said. During those days together, Wilson learned a lot about what went on behind the scenes that went into the decisions Carter had to make as president, which gave him a new perspective on those years. “I think history will be very kind to Jimmy Carter,” Wilson said. “I think they will view him very much as a man of faith, a man of vision, a man who was a very great leader. Our country did not particularly want to follow his lead. He told us things we didn’t really want to hear.” Carter is one of only two Democrats to win North Carolina over the last 60 years. He won it in his first run in 1976 but lost it to Ronald Reagan in his re-election bid in 1980. See what small role Wilson played in that in this edition of The Buckley Report.