July 7 marks 73 years when Naval Academy Midshipman Jimmy Carter married sweetheart Rosalynn Smith. Wow...the changes they have seen! Throughout it all, thier love has lit the world from Rosalynn’s crusade for pairity in mental health coverage to the Carter Center’s efforts to make guinea worm and river blindness dieseaes disappear to Mideast Peace, human rights and an energy/climate policy that was 50 years ahead of it’s time.
There is no way Jimmy Carter would ever have been elected to anything without Rosalynn. She’s tougher than Kamala Harris! If you want to make Jimmy Carter mad and feel negative urges in his heart, insult Rosalynn like old right-wing pundits like George Will used to do. Will was disheartened by the drab White House under Rosalynn where liquor wasn’t served and the First Lady dared to wear the same dress more than once. Will would soon fall in live with Nancy Reagan. Worst of all was Rosalynn’s attendence at a few cabinet meetings, how pushy & uppity for a girl!
The Carter’s are an example to us all and represent the very best of the USA. May there be many more happy anniversaries to come.