Jimmy, Rosalynn Carter Reach 70th Wedding Anniversary

[Night Watchman]

Source: ABC News

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 70th wedding anniversary.

The former U.S. president and first lady married on July 7, 1946, in their small hometown of Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter, who's 91, and Rosalynn Carter, 88, told The Associated Press last month that mutual respect makes their long marriage possible.

The Carters also said they give each other plenty of space while working on separate projects.

The couple plans to spend the day at home in Plains, while the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta will mark the occasion with 70-cent admission. Museum officials say they'll deliver cards to the Carters.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-reach-70th-wedding-anniversary-40397671

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Great man, great lady!

[Lunabell]

1. Happy Aniversary

To a wonderful, loving Democratic couple. Carter is one of the last great Democrats.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R! Congratulations to two national treasures!

I've been listening to Jimmy Carter's autobiography "A Full Life" on audio disc - read by the author himself - and he really has led a full - and pretty amazing life. I think it wasn't until disc #5 that he ran for president, LOL. And Rosalynn, as well as their kids, have been with him all the way. She was initially rather shy, but during his Navy career she was on her own a lot and gained confidence - and it turns out that she was good at - and really enjoyed - managing his initial campaigns. They also grew up very near each other, she was a friend of his sister's. When there was a new baby in the neighborhood, the Carters went to call on the family, and little Jimmy was one of the first to peek into her crib when Rosalynn was a baby...

[Surya Gayatri]

3. Bless them both. May they have more fruitful years together.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Pretty amazing and Congrats!

[merrily]

5. I once heard him say he told his mom he had just met the gal he wanted to marry. Awwww.

Whether it's fiction or real life--but especially real life--I love The Notebook type story of love at first sight lasting "until death do us part."

(Just realized, that should be "until death does us part." Talk about grammar Nazis!)

[madokie]

6. Awesome couple

I really really really like President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Our 26th is coming up on the 19th. Only 44 to go

[brett_jv]

7. Amazing. In every sense of the word ...

Let's raise a glass to Jimmy and Rosalyn, who are truly a beautiful American love story!

Here's to them also making it to their 80th, and beyond!

[gademocrat7]

8. Happy Anniversary to President Carter and Mrs. Carter.

We love them.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Oh those 2 slackers!

[bemildred]

10. Such a good example. nt

[sangfroid]

11. Congratulations to a wonderful couple.

nt

[TNNurse]

12. My husband just called me out for criticizing Mika on Morning Joe

She mispronounced Rosalynn Carter's name. I thought of it as a lack of respect. She was the First Lady, every adult in the country should be able to pronounce her name. (She said Rozlyn)

I have an unusual double name and people have gotten it wrong my whole adult life, maybe I am sensitive or maybe Mika is just a jerk.

[sdfernando]

13. Holy Cow!!!!

That is so amazing! Such good people!

[daleo]

14. That's pretty amazing

Good for them. I was a teenager when Carter was president. He always struck me as one of the most fundamentally decent public figures of my lifetime.

[SCantiGOP]

17. He was my first ever "winning" vote

My vote for McGovern in '72 didn't really tip the scales.

Congrats to a great couple. One of the few I can say really lives their religious faith the way it was presented in the New Testament.

[840high]

23. Agreed.

[winstars]

15. tRump and Newt: 6 wives between them. Repugs: Carter was terrible!!! Me: face palm...

[brer cat]

16. Still happy after all these years.

K&R

[niyad]

18. the happiest of anniversaries to these two incredible amazing people.

[Odin2005]

19. Happy Anniversary!!!

[smirkymonkey]

20. What a lovely couple!

Happy Anniversary!

[63splitwindow]

21. Good, decent man and woman and GREAT Americans...

So naturally despised by the right wing zealots of every imaginable variety, most disgustingly the "Religious" right.

[Ellen Forradalom]

22. Mazel tov to them.

Rosalyn Carter was a fine First Lady and History will look more kindly on Pres Carter than his contemporaries did.

[gopiscrap]

24. Congratulations!!!!

[Cha]

25. This is wonderful, Night Watchman.. How sweet.. Mahalo!

[Hekate]

26. Bless them both abundantly

[colorado_ufo]

27. God bless the "newlyweds!"

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Wonderful!

[JonathanRackham]

29. A milestone I aspire to.

I'm only at halftime.

bravo Carter's