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I am watching Jimmy Carter's final journeys - updated (Original Post) malaise Jan 2025 OP
I have the livestream of his funeral playing on my TV... Dennis Donovan Jan 2025 #1
Lovely post malaise Jan 2025 #2
Added live feed n/t malaise Jan 2025 #3
Interesting story on MSNBC about Jimmy and Rosalynn avebury Jan 2025 #4
I remember reading that story a while back here on DU malaise Jan 2025 #5
Kick n/t malaise Jan 2025 #6

Dennis Donovan

(30,039 posts)
1. I have the livestream of his funeral playing on my TV...
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 11:50 AM
Jan 2025

....and, in my mind I was transported back to being 11 years old the magical year of 1976. It was the US Bicentennial, an election year and Norman Lear's liberal sitcom stable dominated TV's Top 10. My big worry in life was that I was going from Elementary School to Middle School in the fall.

That fall, Mom, as she did 4 years earlier in 1972 for the McGovern campaign, brought my brother and I down to the local Democratic Headquarters to stuff envelopes and fill small plastic bags with Carter campaign lit. Afterwards, working off a grid crudely drawn over the map of my small city in upstate, NY, we went door-to-door, faithfully leaving the literature hanging from the knob. We did this every weekend in October, 1976.

Election night was joyous in our house. After the crushing defeat by the now-infamous Richard Nixon of the gallant George McGovern four years previously, this election night gave us something to really celebrate. I think Mom got drunk on champagne...

avebury

(11,119 posts)
4. Interesting story on MSNBC about Jimmy and Rosalynn
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jan 2025

Jimmy Carter's mom was a nurse who delivered Rosalynn. It was said that she brought her toddler son, Jimmy, to see the new baby. That is a unique first meeting.

malaise

(282,688 posts)
5. I remember reading that story a while back here on DU
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 01:49 PM
Jan 2025

He literally knew her from birth. 😀.

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