“She’s the one I’m going to marry,” Jimmy Carter said of Rosalynn Smith after their first meeting.  But things didn’t go exactly as planned.  “I asked Rosalynn to marry me,” he said, “and she turned me down.”  Not willing to lose the girl with whom he corresponded while  away as a student at the United States Naval Academy, ending letters with “I.L.Y.T.G.,” for “I Love You the Goodest,” Carter persisted.  They were married one month after his graduation.

Born James Earl Carter Jr. on October 1, 1924, he was elected the 39^th President of the United States.  Continue reading →