But they also had the good fortune of enjoying each other’s company. They found shared interests and hobbies, such as skiing, bird-watching and fly-fishing.
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They had some advice on how to sustain a relationship: they never go to bed angry. The occasion has nudged the couple to reminisce on a marriage that has come to be defined by its longevity, sure, but also by the closeness of the two people in it. (“I think we have too many people coming,” Jimmy Carter says.) And next weekend, they’ll go down the street to Plains High School, where a few hundred relatives and friends will gather to celebrate their anniversary, which is Wednesday. Rosalynn Carter says she looked forward to seeing a great-granddaughter, now three, she had not met yet. The Bidens dropped by in April for a visit. “We’ve just grown closer and closer together,” Carter says.īut after riding out the coronavirus pandemic in the modest ranch-style home in Plains they built in 1961, the Carters are eager to step out. As their world inevitably narrows in the dusk of life, the couple has come to rely on their bond even more.
Their partnership has withstood the glare of political campaigns and the strains of raising a family, triumphs that catapulted them to international prominence and a defeat that sent them home to Georgia as political outcasts with a faltering family business. “After a long while,” Carter (96) pipes up. “After a while, I changed my mind,” says Rosalynn Carter (93), noting that she hesitated because of a request by her father on his deathbed that she finish college. And on a recent morning, the pair of them – the former president and first lady, now known as Mrs Carter – were still side by side, his hand resting on top of hers, explaining that the rejection had merely been a hiccup before a marriage that is about to reach its 75th anniversary. Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the US Naval Academy, wanted to marry Rosalynn Smith, a girl he met on the day she was born and knew mostly as his sister Ruth’s best friend until they went on a double date, riding to the movies together squeezed in the rumble seat of an old Ford.