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Former President Jimmy Carter and Wife Rosalynn Celebrate 73 Years of Marriage

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are approaching a record for the longest-married presidential couple, after celebrating their 73rd wedding anniversary Sunday.

The couple is just behind former president George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, who were married 73 years and 111 days at the time of the former first lady’s death in 2018.

In celebration of the Carters’ anniversary, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Carter Center shared black-and-white portraits of Jimmy, 94, and Rosalynn, 91, to honor their love story.

Carter was on break from the Naval Academy in the 1940s when he first asked Rosalynn on a date to the movies. By the next morning, he knew she would someday be his wife, he told the Washington Post.


Read more at People.com.
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