Photo courtesy of The Elders Flickr page - Jimmy Carter with his grandsons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/theelders/4150589762/in/photolist-7jLRJs-oX1WF-8koe83-5nHBsM-89DrRy-8DS6AK-5SZq78-b5qaeT-7jGYfV-7jLSu1-7jGYpF-8kk2wv-8koe5L-8kk2wP-MZxpG-eeoHpb-eei15r-uGsA6S-4JwjNp-kz42WV-pJnffg-5FbFTp-2XAg8e-eE1frf-5QDy4K-uiktS-o31Sc1-rEGZZ7-uiktW-g6cCBD-5T55Ls-5SZq5H-5FbwDz-j9wBgW-uiktQ-5FbwGD-uiiAt-uiiAp-uiktT-4PnZXt-39afGA-dVku6U-5FbG62-RqGKa-dVhyFC-dVhyGL-eeoPbb-qXcAAB-mV9YNZ-mVq3Bk
A picture that I took during the Jimmy Carter booksigning event at New Haven, Connecticut in early December, 2014. I wrote a blog entry about this, which was oublished on December 5, 2014.
Here is the link: President Jimmy Carter Visits Yale & Princeton
A photo that I took from a booksigning with Jimmy Carter at Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue in New York City last year, which I took my son to go see (and get a few books signed by a former President). I wrote a review on it, on March 27, 2014, titled:
President Jimmy Carter Book Signing, New York, NY - March 25, 2014:
A few days ago, I posted some bad news about Jimmy Carter having fallen again, and hurt his pelvis. It was his second fall this month, with the other leaving a black eye.
However, it should be evidence of the spirit and inspiration of this man, and this former First Couple, that they were back on their feet and working on building homes for the less advantaged within 24 hours, showing a truly selfless spirit that embodies the very best that this country has to offer.
So in that spirit, I thought it would also be good to share another landmark. Earlier this year, Jimmy Carter became the oldest former president in American history.
More recently, he and Rosalyn Carter became the longest married First Couple in American history, at more than 73 years!
Here are some stories from the article by Saeed Ahmed of CNN that I took this from (see link below):
When Jimmy Carter first proposed, Rosalynn Smith -- as she was known then -- rejected him. Why? She had made a promise to her dying father she'd finish college first.
As she recounted in her memoir, "First Lady from Plains," the pair grew up three years and three miles apart.
There were no girls in town who were her age. So Rosalynn became best friends with Jimmy's younger sister.
"I thought he was the most handsome young man I had ever seen," she wrote in her memoir.
Her father died when she was 12. But she kept her promise. She graduated from Georgia Southwestern College.
The pair went on their first date in 1945. They married the following year.
He was 21. She was 18.
"The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosalynn," Carter once said. "That's a pinnacle in my life."
That's not to say it's been easy sailing all through. Take the time the couple decided to write a book together.
"It's the worst problem we've ever had since we've been married," Jimmy Carter jokingly told CNN at the time.
"It would be like God had given her this text at Mt. Sinai and she had brought it down and presented it to me in stone."
He is now 95. She is 92. And their love story is still going strong.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter just became the longest-married presidential couple By Saeed Ahmed, CNN Updated 3:02 PM ET, Fri October 18, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-longest-married-presidential-couple-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-10-18T10%3A30%3A12&fbclid=IwAR2nkSgz11xLUsPmZavRtDkLHs4EapQ-qe0M8EdHNXAkH1MQO1bgtKOb5e4
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