RIP Rosalyn Carter
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Started by metmike - Nov. 20, 2023, 5:22 p.m.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-dies/story?id=55565598

Mrs. Carter served as the country's first lady during her husband's only term as U.S. president, from 1977 to 1981. The former first lady carved out a profound role at the White House, serving as an envoy abroad and as a political surrogate to her husband. She also raised four children, 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

In 1982, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit devoted to advancing human rights and alleviating human suffering, shortly after Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan.

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This is what I loved the most about the Carter's! They did the most for mankind than any other presidential married couple in history!

What a blessed life that featured helping other people this wonderful lady had!

Rosalynn Carter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (/ˈrzəlɪn/ROH-zə-lin; néeSmith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American writer and activist who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For the decades she was in public service, she was a leading advocate for numerous causes, including mental health.

Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated as valedictorian[1] of Plains High School, and soon after attended Georgia Southwestern College, where she graduated in 1946. She first became attracted to her husband, also from Plains, after seeing a picture of him in his U.S. Naval Academy uniform, and they married in 1946. Carter helped her husband win the governorship of Georgia in 1970, and decided to focus her attention in the field of mental health when she was that state's first lady. She campaigned for her husband during his successful bid to become president of the United States in the 1976 election, defeating incumbent Republican president Gerald Ford.

Carter was politically active during her husband's presidency, though she declared that she had no intention of being a traditional first lady. During his term of office, Carter supported her husband's public policies as well as his social and personal life. In order to remain fully informed, she sat in on Cabinet meetings at the invitation of the President. Carter also represented her husband in meetings with domestic and foreign leaders, including as an envoy to Latin America in 1977. He found her to be an equal partner. She campaigned for his re-election bid in the 1980 election, which he lost to Republican Ronald Reagan.

After leaving the White House in 1981, Carter continued to advocate for mental health and other causes, and wrote several books. She and her husband contributed to the expansion of the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. Carter was the second-longest-lived first lady after Bess Truman, and was the longest-married first lady. She and her husband received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. She died on November 19, 2023, two days after it had been announced that she had entered hospice care.[2]

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By metmike - Nov. 20, 2023, 5:26 p.m.
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                Greatest FORMER President in history/J. Carter                                      21 responses |               

                Started by metmike - Feb. 18, 2023, 7:49 p.m.  

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/93232/


Jimmy made it crystal clear his entire life that she was his equal partner and she played a key role in his great achievements!


By metmike - Dec. 8, 2023, 10:11 p.m.
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Jimmy Carter Was a Better President than You Think

The surprising legacy of America's least popular president

https://fee.org/articles/jimmy-carter-was-a-better-president-than-you-think/?amp;utm_campaign=a564d33bfd-FEE_Daily_9_4_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_77ef1bd48e-a564d33bfd-14042589&gclid=CjwKCAiAmsurBhBvEiwA6e-WPNDvRmII0injA4KZGAH4BJ3OmsNOa0y4wnMLGogcI-2xD6RsQBN6DRoCLqsQAvD_BwE


People want the illusion of control: a comforting, competent father-protector at the helm of our national destiny — and Carter couldn’t fake that role as well as most presidents before or since.

So here’s to Jimmy Carter, the president who actually did the thankless job of restraining and reforming government.

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The only honest president in my life time!