Rosalynn Carter

• It’s pronounced ROH-zə-lin.

• Her future mother-in-law helped deliver her.

• Jimmy peeked into her crib when she was a newborn.

• When Jimmy decided to leave Schenectady, NY and move back to Georgia without consulting her, she avoiding talking to him for the entire drive (communicating entirely through their children).

• Believed mental health was as important as physical health, long before that was widely accepted. Worked to get a bill passed and signed into law… then three months later, President Ronald Reagan stripped away the funding.

• Married to 39th president Jimmy Carter for 77 years, the longest of any presidential couple.

• The Carters were the only modern couple to return to their original hometown after the presidency.

• With her husband, worked tirelessly to eradicate disease and protect/advance democracy.

• Died at 96, making her the first lady to live the second longest.
  (Bess Truman lived until age 97. Nancy Regan and Lady Bird Johnson lived until 94. Betty Ford lived until 93 and Barbara Bush until 92.)

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