Mrs carter has passed

Rest in peace Rosalynn.
Tough loss for Jimmy even at 99 .
 
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Normally I would be really sad about a First Lady's passing.....but I've talked to a guy who worked in the White House when the Carters took over from Ford.....and he said that the Carter's were not very nice people. He was in White House communications....and was the same MOS that I was before I went SF.


I was monitoring the radio while at the JSOTF on the US Embassy in Mogadishu Somalia in 93'.

He said that "It was like a cold wind coming down the hall to the West Wing when Jimmy or Rosalyne was coming."

"You were to speak only when spoken too."

This was kind of a shock to me when I heard it, because I always believed the nice image that the media presented about Jimmy and the First Lady.

I think this comes from Jimmy being a Southern Peanut Farmer in Georgia.....when he grew up during the Depression....the people living in the big White House at the top of the hill were treated like VIPs everywhere in town. Everyone else in town was Middle-Class working folks or poor folks digging in the dirt or working the fields.
 
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The Carter Secret Service gig is nearly at it's closing chapter. I believe there are overwhelming elderly spouse die relatively soon after losing his or her partners so being 99.....not much reaching here.
no....but a long detail for the SS , bet they've a few stories ....~S~
 
Normally I would be really sad about a First Lady's passing.....but I've talked to a guy who worked in the White House when the Carters took over from Ford.....and he said that the Carter's were not very nice people. He was in White House communications....and was the same MOS that I was before I went SF.


I was monitoring the radio while at the JSOTF in Mogadishu Somalia Embassy in 93'.

He said that "It was like a cold wind coming down the hall to the West Wing when Jimmy or Rosalyne was coming."

"You were to speak only when spoken too."

This was kind of a shock to me when I heard it, because I always believed the nice image that the media presented about Jimmy and the First Lady.

I think this comes from Jimmy being a Southern Peanut Farmer in Georgia.....when he grew up during the Depression....the people living in the big White House at the top of the hill were treated like VIPs everywhere in town. Everyone else in town was Middle-Class working folks or poor folks digging in the dirt or working the fields.

Real classy.
 
One of the good people to be in the WhiteHouse. May her husband and daughter find peace and understanding at this time.
She was a mental health advocate and was an inspiration to to those of us who cared about that issue.
 
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She was a strong advocate for good mental health. I wish her husband and daughter peace and understanding at this time. Any negative stories about them while at the WhiteHouse I would attribute to them not putting up with slacker B.S. by those employed there.
 

“Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.”​

― James Russell Lowell
 
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