Happy Birthday Willie Nelson!
“When I was in trouble in the White House or when I wanted to have some deep thoughts, I had a very high quality hi-fi player, and the number one thing I played was Willie Nelson songs. All the good things I did as a president, all the mistakes I made — you can blame half of that on Willie.”
-Jimmy Carter in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine
President Carter on stage at a performance by country western singer, Willie Nelson at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. September 13, 1980. The two remain friends today.
-from the Carter Library
Easter Egg Roll at the Carter White House - Amy Carter and James Earl Carter IV on the South Lawn. 4/1/1980
Happy Easter Weekend! May your eggs be bright, your bunnies chocolate, and your rolls smooth.
As you know, we presently have a very serious problem with one of the atomic powerplants on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. I’ve just had word from that site that the situation is still stable and slowly improving. But many people in that region have been severely frightened, and the crisis is not yet over.
Source: presidency.ucsb.edu
On March 28, 1979, a nuclear meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Five days later, Jimmy Carter visited the damaged power plant. As a trained nuclear engineer, the President had served as a senior officer in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program, and had worked on efforts to dismantle a damaged nuclear reactor in Canada.
Soon after, President Carter ordered a commission to investigate the accident at Three Mile Island. Read the report- The Need for Change: The Legacy of TMI.
Source: archives.gov
Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel
On March 26, 1979, on the North Grounds of the White House, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin joined hands after the signing of the “Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel.”
This is among the most requested photographs in the holdings of the Carter Library.
More- The Camp David Accords
Source: jimmycarterlibrary.gov
The President participated in a briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and the boycot [sic] of the Summer Olympic games in Moscow with members of the U.S. Summer Olympic Team.
Jimmy Carter’s White House Daily Dairy. March 21, 1980. 2:30 pm.
See the official White House Dairy entry here.
Source: jimmycarterlibrary.gov
I Think My Mom's in Love with Jimmy Carter
“I’m starting to suspect that the way my mom feels about Jimmy Carter is the way my generation feels about Ryan Gosling…”
In lighter news from Meghan O’Keefe for the Huff Post Comedy.
I know that Jimmy Carter used to be a member of the National FFA Organization. Do you have any photos of a young Carter in his FFA jacket?
The Carter Library has one image of President Carter as a Future Farmers of America member when he was 15 years old. This photo is of a young Jimmy Carter at FFA Camp but as you can see, he is not wearing a jacket.
If you are interested in more research, the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains, Georgia might have more photos.
Thanks for asking!
Jimmy and Andy in the Seventies
Jimmy Carter with Andy Warhol during a reception for inaugural portfolio artists. 6/14/1977
RIP Andy Warhol: August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987
Source: research.archives.gov
Happy birthday Susan B. Anthony!
February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin. The U.S. Mint officially released the coin on July 2, 1979.
Source: usmint.gov
