Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter passed away

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Sad day, Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter passed away today at the age of 96.

Wasn't sure where to post this news.
 
It is sad news. Mrs. Carter was a very fine person as is her husband. I voted for Jimmy Carter twice. He served in between Nixon (and a bit of Ford) and Reagan. The only time between 1968 and 1988 that the guy I voted for wound up in the White House. :(

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January 20 1977 Mondale at the upper right​
 
acbytesla said:
Sad day, Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter passed away today at the age of 96.

Wasn't sure where to post this news.
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Social Issues and Current Events seems like the obvious place to post this news. But since you seem to think there might be a political angle to her death, I'll hazard a guess that she must have information about the death of Jeffrey Epstein m
 
theprestige said:
Social Issues and Current Events seems like the obvious place to post this news. But since you seem to think there might be a political angle to her death, I'll hazard a guess that she must have information about the death of Jeffrey Epstein m
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Doesn't seem to be obvious to me. The political angle is she was the First Lady of the the State of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States.

I'll be curious what Biden and the Former Presidents have to say.
 
acbytesla said:
Doesn't seem to be obvious to me. The political angle is she was the First Lady of the the State of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States.

I'll be curious what Biden and the Former Presidents have to say.
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No doubt they will all send their condolences.
 
acbytesla said:
Doesn't seem to be obvious to me. The political angle is she was the First Lady of the the State of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States.

I'll be curious what Biden and the Former Presidents have to say.
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As far as I know, she was never a political figure. Certainly not forty years after her husband's retirement from public office. How do you think she'd feel, if you'd told her that because her husband was once a political figure, you would consider her death decades later to be a political death? Let the woman rest in peace.
 
acbytesla said:
You think Trump will say the right thing? Even if it might be a cliche?
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I don't know. He might. I'm not even going to look unless he says or does something so outrageous that it makes the news.

We know that he is capable of saying the right thing, and I don't think it is worth trying to hunt down what he says now unless, as I said, it seriously breaches all norms of civility.
 
theprestige said:
As far as I know, she was never a political figure. Certainly not forty years after her husband's retirement from public office. How do you think she'd feel, if you'd told her that because her husband was once a political figure, you would consider her death decades later to be a political death? Let the woman rest in peace.
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I must admit that while I obviously knew who Jimmy Carter was, I knew nothing about his wife until today. I couldn't even have told you her name except... Mrs Carter (?).

There are some First Ladies who clearly take up a more public role such as Nancy Reagan who I think it is fair to think of as a political figure, and Hillary Clinton obviously. But for the most part, I don't like the idea of family members being pressed into service if they did not choose to do it themselves.
 
Rosalynn Carter was maybe the most active First Lady ever. As the New York Times reminds:
In the continuum of first ladies after Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Carter broke the mold. Like most of the others, she championed a cause — hers was the treatment of mental illness. But she also immersed herself in the business of the nation and kept a sharp eye on politics, a realm her husband famously claimed to ignore. She frequently attended Mr. Carter’s cabinet meetings and traveled abroad to meet with heads of state in visits labeled substantive, not ceremonial. She often sat in on the daily National Security Council briefings held for the president and senior staff. Times article link
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The Carters during the 1976 campaign
 
acbytesla said:
Doesn't seem to be obvious to me. The political angle is she was the First Lady of the the State of Georgia and the First Lady of the United States.
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She was everything that EmptyG is not.

I'll be curious what Biden and the Former Presidents have to say.
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All of them will be polite and restrained and utterly sympathetic. Except Trump. He will be none of that.
 
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