Just curious...Why wasn't Roselin Carter with Michelle Obama and Laura Bush?

[mfcorey1]

[elleng]

1. Not as closely related to effects of 9/11?

[davepc]

2. Perhaps cause the other two arent 83 years old.

[Hekate]

3. What davepc said. nt

[NightWatcher]

4. because she has a her own life and isnt a cheerleader

[jaxx]

7. Rather odd to refer to the first ladies as 'cheerleaders'.

What are they cheerleading? What is wrong with remembering the people who died on that plane?

[DURHAM D]

5. Trying to start something?

Obviously Carter was not the President in 2001.

Why didn't you ask about Hillary? Same answer.

[mfcorey1]

9. Not trying to start anything. I was just curious. BTW, Hillary is Sec of State and busy..

[WinkyDink]

6. Why is either there today?

[jaxx]

8. Why wouldn't they be there?

[WinkyDink]

11. Let me know on Pearl Harbor Day.

[jaxx]

13. Pearl Harbor was 69 years ago.

And each year there is a ceremony to remember.
I can't your point.

[MilesColtrane]

10. Because she wasn't invited?

:shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

12. Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter

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First Lady of Georgia

After helping her husband win the governorship of Georgia in 1970, Carter decided to focus her attention as First Lady of Georgia on the field of mental health. She was appointed to the Governor's Commission to Improve Services for the Mentally and Emotionally Handicapped. Many of the Commission's recommendations were approved and became law. She also served as a volunteer at the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and for four years was honorary chairperson for the Georgia Special Olympics.

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In January 1977, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter walked hand-in-hand down Pennsylvania Avenue during his presidential inauguration parade. For the inaugural balls, she wore the same gown she had worn six years earlier at the balls in Atlanta when her husband became governor.

During the her husband's administration, Carter supported his public policies as well as his social and personal life. To be fully informed, at the invitation of the President, she would sit in on Cabinet meetings. She represented him in meetings with domestic and foreign leaders, most notably as an envoy to Latin America in 1977. She also led a delegation to Thailand in 1979 to address the problems of Cambodian and Laotian refugees. Helping the refugees, particularly the children, became a special cause for her. When the cultural exchange program Friendship Force International was launched at the White House on March 1, 1977, she became honorary chairperson, a title she held until 2002.

She served as an active honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health. On behalf of the Mental Health System Bill, enacted in 1980, she testified before a Senate committee, the second First Lady to appear before the Congress (the first being Eleanor Roosevelt). In addition, Carter was a strong proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Thanks! That was my first thought...

Rosalynn Carter's issue is mental health. :thumbsup::hi: