Originally published at: Former first lady Rosalynn Carter dead at 96 | Boing Boing
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Um… first lady not first wife - two extremely different connotations there! 
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Rosalynn Carter was the first First Lady to have an actual office in the White House, including staff. She often attended cabinet meetings and security briefings. The Carters really were a package deal. Apparently Jimmy actually hated politics. Rosalynn didn’t. In another time, maybe she would have been the one to run for office.
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@beschizza - The Carter Center set up a tribute page if you want to incorporate it into your article. It includes links for donations to the organizations that she started that support mental illness advocacy and caregiving…
https://www.rosalynncartertribute.org/
Also, some articles… The Guardian:
And the local ATL public station’s obit:
From the AJC…
Pictures…
anyways…
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Married 77 years! Amazing.
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i fear now for Jimmy. I feel like he was hanging on because he didn’t want to leave her to face the grief, and now that she’s gone he won’t be far behind.
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I’ve been trying to phrase my similar thoughts. But I won’t say I fear for him per se. It’s more I hope he gets to follow her soon, though obviously I don’t want the world to lose him too. After so long together and having such a clearly loving relationship…I can’t imagine how profoundly lonely he must be right now. I agree with your suspicion that he was just holding on so she didn’t have to feel the grief for him. Of course, I assume she was doing the same and he just proved more stubborn. They were a part of each other in so many ways for longer than I can imagine.
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yeah, i agree. and it’s true, my fear is totally selfish. I admire him and their relationship so much, i don’t want the world to be without him. He was the first president i really cared about when i was a kid, the first election i kind of paid attention to – probably because his daughter is my age, so it all felt more real to me or something.
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It’s undoubtedly true that they are two of the finest humans to ever live in the White House. I wasn’t old enough to have opinions on their time there as it occurred but they’ve done more to improve the world since leaving politics than most of us will ever get a chance to do.
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