Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter - love almost 70 years strong.

Wow. Regardless of any political feelings about our 39th President, this photo really IS iconic:





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hands-helping-volunteer-project-Memphis.html


From the above link:

The Carters married on July 7, 1946, 69.5 years ago. I bet anything that former Pres. Carter is fighting hard to live long enough to celebrate their platinum (70th) wedding anniversary on July 7th, 2016. I hope that he makes it and beyond. I also hope if he does make it, that President Obama will host their anniversary at the White House, because at 69+ years together, we have never in history had a presidential couple that was married this long other than George Bush, Sr. who has now been married over 70 years. He and Barbara Bush hold the record for the longest married presidential couple, but Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn, come in a close 2nd. Gerald R. and Betty Ford were married for 58 years when he died. John and Abigail Adams were married for circa 54 years. She preceeded him in death. Ronald and Nancy Reagan were married for 52 years when he died. Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover were married for 45 years. She died before him.

Carter is 91 and still working directly on-site for Habitat for Humanity. Wow, just wow.

There are just no words to describe how awesome it is to see this kind of real love and caring, almost 70 years on.

I will remind that Jimmy Carter is the ONLY president to have hammered out a ME-peace treaty (this one being between Israel and Egypt), a treaty that is still in effect today.

I created this thread because this subject is just plain old awesome and everyone should see this.

-Stat

[MENTION=15690]mertex[/MENTION] - I thought you would find this especially uplifting. [MENTION=69526]Derideo_Te[/MENTION] - cool, what??

 

And just to note, at 91, former President Carter is STILL teaching Sunday School at his home church:

http://www.mbcplains.org/?page_id=212

Wow. In fact, he is booked for all four Sundays in December.

That's a pretty strong witness for his faith, if you ask me.

 

Staying faithfully married that long is no easy feat. I'll gladly set politics aside to recognize this.

How long has Bush 41 been married?

 

That is a very nice photo. Didn't they recently kiss on a kiss-cam somewhere?

 

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are great humanitarians.

 

Jimmy Carter is one of the few Presidents who was actually more relevant post Presidency. Gotta give him credit for that.

 

It is so sad this past President has brain cancer. He is still a wonderful man. Their marriage has lasted almost 70 years. The photo of them kissing is one of those precious Kodak moments.

 

For awhile even devout Dems were willing to throw him under the bus. I never was. This man has always been willing to take on the most unpopular positions against just about every sacred cow lobby in the establishment, and still kept trying to be a force for good values. That is about the toughest assignment in politics.

 

They both walk the walk, not just talk the talk, and are inspiring in their dedication to helping others, and not just with Habitat for Humanity. Jimmy Carter's work and dedication to solve Guinea worm disease has worked so well that it will soon become the second human disease to be eradicated. The first was smallpox. More Americans could stand to be just like them, me included.

 

I have mixed feelings, about Jimmy Carter. I don't see eye to eye with his politics, but I acknowledge that he's a great humanitarian. The Camp David Accords were a great accomplishment, by his administration.
I think his only character flaw, if you wanna call it that, is that he still seems bitter about being only a one term president. But, he's still a good person.

 

Gotta agree with the sentiments here. He's a great guy, loves his wife. hearts in the right place. Good for him.

 

Oh, you are right, I forgot about George H. W. Bush (41), a president whom I very much admire.
They married on January 6th, 1945, which now changes the math, so I am very glad you brought it up, and I will also ask the mods to allow me to edit the OP.

George Bush, Sr. has now been married over 70 years. He and Barbara Bush hold the record for the longest married presidential couple, not Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn, though they come in a close 2nd.

I want to thank you for bringing this to my attention. I wanted to remember Bush having married in 1949, but was simply wrong. The data went by me and no slight at all was intended. I never have a problem admitting an honest mistake, it's part of being human.

It's also quite a thing that the two longest married presidential couples are still alive at the same time.

Again, thanks.

 

While Bush sr and Barbara might have a longer marriage there is no doubt whatsover that the Carter's have been doing way more for others than all of the rest of the past presidents combined.

Yes, I both Jimmy and Rosalyn for being wonderful examples of what it means to be married and to live by their faith in ways that put others first and foremost.

They embody the sentiment of We the Couple, in order to form a more perfect union have made it work.

 

This is a feel good story..... The Carters are a good family. Both President and Mrs. Carter have worked tirelessly at rebuilding lives and giving back to communities. In 30 years, I can see the Obamas doing the same.

 

With luck they'll be leaving prison about then.

I have nothing good to say about Carter having lived through his worthless presidency.

 

At an Atlanta Braves game, I think. If not a Braves game, it would have been been at the Atlanta Falcons game.

 

I do not see that.... I see Michelle running for Illinois office as a senator. I see Barack devoting himself to law and maybe even being a professor. In honesty, I see him being on the Supreme Court.

 

They are such a great couple. The right doesn't like him, but he's a much better Christian than both Bushes put together.

 

Of course not........most conservatives would rather have a sleazy President like Reagan, who negotiated with terrorists and sold guns to the Contras....and Bush Jr., who tanked the country and made some many people jobless. Now they're trying to elect some clown who doesn't know anything about politics, or one that exaggerates everything he does and boasts about things that never happened! Bwahahaha!

 

Put down the crack pipe.

 

Oh, Jeez, that's the scariest thought ever. I wouldn't put it past Hillary to win, appoint 0bama when ol' Ruthie dies, and we're (*)(*)(*)(*)ed forever!

Once again, I'm so glad I'm old and likely won't be around for the (*)(*)(*)(*) coming.

EDIT:::::::::::::::::::::I don't know what happened, but this is what I meant to quote:

 

This old Georgia boy has to admit Jimmy was a lousy president, but the best ex-president this country has ever had. I hope he reaches 100 and is still going strong building houses.

 

January 6, 1945 Is when George and Barbara Bush married.

 

Not to take anything away from President Carter, but the Bushes are good Christians too:

What George W. Bush did right
February 21, 2013|By Christian Caryl
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON — — Which United States president will go down in history as the greatest humanitarian to have served in the office? The Republican Herbert Hoover is often known as the "Great Humanitarian" for his work administering famine relief in post-World War I Europe (and Bolshevik Russia) in the 1920s — but he did all that before he actually became president. Others might make the case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democrat who succeeded Hoover in the White House, whose New Deal initiatives relieved poverty and sickness on a grand scale within the United States.

But I'd suggest that there's one president whose contribution dwarfs all the others. Unlike Hoover, he launched his program while he was in office, and unlike FDR, he received virtually no votes in return, since most of the people who have benefited aren't U.S. citizens. In fact, there are very few Americans around who even associate him with his achievement. Who's this great humanitarian? The name might surprise you: It's George W. Bush.

I should say that I do not belong to the former president's political camp. I strongly disapproved of many of his policies. At the same time, I think it's a tragedy that the foreign policy shortcomings of the Bush administration have conspired to obscure his most positive legacy — not least because it saved so many lives, but because there's so much that Americans and the rest of the world can learn from it. Both his detractors and supporters tend to view his time in office through the lens of the "war on terror" and the policies that grew out of it. By contrast, only a few Americans have ever heard of PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which President Bush announced in his State of the Union address in 2003.

Fast forward a decade, and in his own State of the Union address last week, President Barack Obama only briefly mentioned the goal of "realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation" — an allusion to the long-term aim of PEPFAR. Yet Obama's most recent budget proposals actually propose to cut spending on the program. That's a pity. This might have been a good moment to celebrate 10 years of an unprecedented American success in fighting one of the world's most pernicious and destructive diseases.

In his 2003 speech, Bush called upon Congress to sponsor an ambitious program to supply antiretroviral drugs and other treatments to HIV sufferers in Africa. Since then, the U.S. government has spent some $44 billion on the project (a figure that includes $7 billion contributed to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, a multilateral organization). By way of comparison, America's most recent aircraft carrier — which will join the 10 we have in service — is set to cost $26.8 billion. One medical expert calls PEPFAR the "largest financial commitment of any country to global health and to treatment of any specific disease worldwide."

It's impossible to tell exactly how many lives the program has saved, though Secretary of State John Kerry recently claimed that 5 million people are alive today because of it. That's probably as good an estimate as any.

Just to give you an idea of the scale, here are some headline figures from a recent op-ed by U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby:

"In 2012 alone, PEPFAR directly supported nearly 5.1 million people on antiretroviral treatment — a threefold increase in only four years; provided antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV to nearly 750,000 pregnant women living with the disease (which allowed approximately 230,000 infants to be born without HIV); and enabled more than 46.5 million people to receive testing and counseling."

So it's safe to say this one program has been a titanic force for good over the past decade. The number of deaths from AIDS has been steadily declining over the past few years, and PEPFAR has certainly been a big help. But ask an American — or a Western European — if they've ever heard of the program, and they're almost certain to draw a blank. That's partly because the United States has done very little to publicize the success of PEPFAR, and partly because the Bush presidency was overshadowed by much more high-profile aspects of his foreign policy (such as the invasion of Iraq).

Indeed, Bush still enjoys high popularity ratings in Africa, where he's widely regarded as one of the continent's great benefactors. (Meanwhile, the Obama administration's proposed PEPFAR cuts have triggered protests around Africa — even in Kenya, where the president's family ties have ensured him plenty of favorable coverage.)

 

very nice