Sure, I smoked a cigar in the Blue Room (and asked Rosalynn to dance), but I was a college kid, excited about the prospects for our politics.

May 30, 2023 - The Carter Center announces that Rosalynn Carter has dementia. November 17, 2023 - Enters hospice care at her home in Plains, Georgia. November 19, 2023 - Passes away at the age of 96. The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2025 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn and their daughter Amy along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration,