Yay another person that is still alive today :). Anyway Rosalynn here was born on August 18th, 1927 in Plains, Georgia. She was the eldest of 4 siblings, two of which have died. In her youth she was her high school Valedictorian, which is pretty impressive (though we don't know her class size). Later in the 1940's she met a man named James Earl "Jimmy" Carter...Who ended up being our president. Jimmy had to propose to Rosalynn twice to get her to accept, the first was because in her opinion was to soon in their dating, but two months later he proposed again and she accepted, they got married in 1946. In the 60's and 70's she helped her husband run for governor and senator. Later becoming president from 1977-1981. Since that time she has been a public speaker in political issues, and has started some associations and being chair of them to try to make a difference on some public issues. Now she is just living her life, and only showing up in politics not so often anymore.
Her quote that I have is, "A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." I full on agree with this, a president may sometimes not be ready to take on the position he is about to get, and sometimes you have to deal with things that you don't necessarily want to deal with, examples...Franklin D. Roosevelt- WWII, George W. Bush- 9/11, and President Barack Obama- Floods of 2008, and Oil Spill of 2010, lastly the Iraq war. I'm sure none of these presidents wanted to deal with the issues, but it is their duty, and they certainly did/will do their best to solve the issues for the good of the country.
The word for the post is, Unilateral: On one side alone.
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