A courtship four decades in the making: they met when Jimmy Carter tapped them for bench, wed 25 years later

“If you don’t marry Carolyn King, you’ll go to seed, you’ll be a burden to your daughters.” A few months later, after the new year, the bereaved 82-year-old senior judge invited King, 65, of Houston, to lunch in Malibu, Calif. Then, on a veranda overlooking the Pacific Ocean, he trotted out the story about what his late wife had said ...