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Jimmy Carter

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Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Well, it was after I left the White House that we found Rosalind. that we would be confronting each other in the same house all day long and not have a job outside, although we do a lot of things now outside that we didn't anticipate then.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Well, it was after I left the White House that we found Rosalind. that we would be confronting each other in the same house all day long and not have a job outside, although we do a lot of things now outside that we didn't anticipate then.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Also, when I lost the election in 1980, I discovered to my horror that a very successful business that I had put into a blind trust when I went to the White House was now a million dollars in debt. We had moved back to Plains, Georgia, a town that had a population of 600. Our last child was leaving home. We didn't have a job. We didn't know what in the world we were going to do.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Also, when I lost the election in 1980, I discovered to my horror that a very successful business that I had put into a blind trust when I went to the White House was now a million dollars in debt. We had moved back to Plains, Georgia, a town that had a population of 600. Our last child was leaving home. We didn't have a job. We didn't know what in the world we were going to do.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Also, when I lost the election in 1980, I discovered to my horror that a very successful business that I had put into a blind trust when I went to the White House was now a million dollars in debt. We had moved back to Plains, Georgia, a town that had a population of 600. Our last child was leaving home. We didn't have a job. We didn't know what in the world we were going to do.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And so Rosa and I have evolved our lifestyle over, after some difficulty, I might admit, in adjusting to each other so that we respect each other's privacy. We know now, after a number of years, what times of day we get together. But during the work periods, when we're writing a book, for instance, books, that's how we make our living now, writing books, we respect each other's privacy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And so Rosa and I have evolved our lifestyle over, after some difficulty, I might admit, in adjusting to each other so that we respect each other's privacy. We know now, after a number of years, what times of day we get together. But during the work periods, when we're writing a book, for instance, books, that's how we make our living now, writing books, we respect each other's privacy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And so Rosa and I have evolved our lifestyle over, after some difficulty, I might admit, in adjusting to each other so that we respect each other's privacy. We know now, after a number of years, what times of day we get together. But during the work periods, when we're writing a book, for instance, books, that's how we make our living now, writing books, we respect each other's privacy.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And we don't encroach on it.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And we don't encroach on it.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

And we don't encroach on it.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yes, as a matter of fact, I wrote about that in the book. My father, my mother, both my sisters and my brother all died from the same illness, and that is cancer. They all smoked cigarettes, and they died, most of them prematurely. I've never smoked, and that's one reason I have better health, I think.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yes, as a matter of fact, I wrote about that in the book. My father, my mother, both my sisters and my brother all died from the same illness, and that is cancer. They all smoked cigarettes, and they died, most of them prematurely. I've never smoked, and that's one reason I have better health, I think.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

Yes, as a matter of fact, I wrote about that in the book. My father, my mother, both my sisters and my brother all died from the same illness, and that is cancer. They all smoked cigarettes, and they died, most of them prematurely. I've never smoked, and that's one reason I have better health, I think.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

But when my family members approached death, all of them, for some reason, approached it with great equanimity. My sister, Ruth, was a famous evangelist, Ruth Carter Stapleton, My brother and my mother were great humorists, and they were still telling jokes and kidding back and forth with the family members around their bedside when they were approaching death the last few hours.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

But when my family members approached death, all of them, for some reason, approached it with great equanimity. My sister, Ruth, was a famous evangelist, Ruth Carter Stapleton, My brother and my mother were great humorists, and they were still telling jokes and kidding back and forth with the family members around their bedside when they were approaching death the last few hours.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

But when my family members approached death, all of them, for some reason, approached it with great equanimity. My sister, Ruth, was a famous evangelist, Ruth Carter Stapleton, My brother and my mother were great humorists, and they were still telling jokes and kidding back and forth with the family members around their bedside when they were approaching death the last few hours.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

My oldest sister, Gloria, was an avid biker. She had a home, you might say, for motorcyclists who were on the way down to Daytona to race, and they would spend two or three days with Gloria while she fed them and took care of them and repaired their jackets and so forth. When Gloria was on her deathbed in the hospital, we all knew she was going to die with pancreatic cancer.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

My oldest sister, Gloria, was an avid biker. She had a home, you might say, for motorcyclists who were on the way down to Daytona to race, and they would spend two or three days with Gloria while she fed them and took care of them and repaired their jackets and so forth. When Gloria was on her deathbed in the hospital, we all knew she was going to die with pancreatic cancer.

Fresh Air
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)

My oldest sister, Gloria, was an avid biker. She had a home, you might say, for motorcyclists who were on the way down to Daytona to race, and they would spend two or three days with Gloria while she fed them and took care of them and repaired their jackets and so forth. When Gloria was on her deathbed in the hospital, we all knew she was going to die with pancreatic cancer.