Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he is awarded the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela during a ceremony at the Carter Center, Jan. 14, 2016, in Atlanta. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. [Courtesy, AP]
If consistency was a person, then that would most likely be Jimmy Carter. So much so that after his first date with Rosalynn Smith in 1945, Jimmy told his mother, "She's the girl I want to marry," They wed a year later, on July 7, 1946.