This is great, better to celebrate people while they are alive then showing up for a funeral.
Luminaries and regular folks help the Carters celebrate a big milestone in their small town
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan
July 10, 2021
PLAINS, Ga. — Country music stars, a billionaire, a civil rights icon and the most powerful woman in Congress traveled to this tiny town on Saturday to toast Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter for their 75th wedding anniversary.
Yet the biggest surprise was that Bill and Hillary Clinton showed up, too, perhaps because time has eased the couples' past tensions.
The marquee names, including singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, CNN founder Ted Turner, former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), gathered in the former high school that the Carters attended 80 years ago. There were relatives and neighbors, poor as well as rich, Republicans as well as Democrats.
Jimmy, 96, and Rosalynn, 93, circulated in the crowd of 350 and greeted their guests warmly.
“In a lot of ways, they were living for this day,” grandson Jason Carter said.
The range of people who descended on Plains was as remarkable as the partnership they came to applaud: a marriage longer than for any other presidential couple in history.
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