This article tells the heartwarming story of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's enduring marriage, which lasted for an impressive 77 years. It highlights their secret to a long and happy union and explores their journey from meeting in their hometown to becoming one of the longest-married presidential couples in history.
Former President Jimmy Carter once said there were only two secrets to a long and happy marriage.'First of all, choose the right person to marry,' Carter said in 2021, the year he and wife Rosalynn celebrated 75 years of marriage.'And every night, we try to make sure we’re completely reconciled from all the arguments during the day.'Jimmy Carter died on Sunday after entering hospice care on Feb. 18, 2023. He was 100 years old. Rosalynn Carter died Nov.
19, 2023, also in her hometown of Plains, Georgia, after entering hospice care a few days earlier. She was 96. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years, the longest-married presidential couple in American history.The 39th president often said the most important decision he ever made wasn’t as head of state, commander in chief or even executive officer of a nuclear submarine in the early years of the Cold War.Rather, it was falling for Eleanor Rosalynn Smith in 1945 and marrying her the following summer.The two met in their hometown of Plains, Georgia when Jimmy Carter, at the time a young midshipman, was home from the U.S. Navy Academy. His younger sister set him up on a date with Rosalynn, a family friend who already had a crush on the future Georgia governor and U.S. president.Before she met Jimmy, Rosalynn didn’t care for dating young men while growing up and never thought she’d get married.'I didn’t know how to talk to them, I didn’t want to go out with them,' she recalled. Rosalynn said she used to urge her mother to tell suitors calling on the phone that she wasn’t around.'And then, along came Jimmy Carter and my life has been an adventure ever since,' she said.The couple married on July 7, 1946, in Plains, a town of fewer than 1,000 residents.They had their first child, Jack, within a year of their marriage, and would eventually have three more children: Donnel, James and Am
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