Jimmy and Rosalynn, both from Plains, Georgia, wed on July 7, 1946, a year after their first date. In the summer of 1945, Jimmy, then-20 years old, asked Rosalynn, then-17 years old, out to the movies ...
Jimmy Carter also considered his wife his muse. "She'd smile, and birds would feel that they no longer had to sing, or it may be I failed to hear their song," Jimmy Carter wrote in a poem titled ...
Watson also shared memories of the tough moments during Carter’s presidency, particularly the Iranian hostage crisis. “Unfortunately, the rescue mission that we had launched was a tragedy,” Watson ...
"Rosalynn and I are doing everything to make sure Carter Center continues when I am not here." Carter's work with The Carter Center is one of his many philanthropic achievements. Carter ...