It's Tuesday, November 21st, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On Sunday,

Rosalind Carter, a former First Lady of the United States and wife of former

President Jimmy Carter, died at age 96. Now that in itself is a remarkable

lifespan and there are very few women as a matter of fact you can do the math who have

served as First Lady of the United States.

President Carter was elected in 1976 as President of the United States

defeating the incumbent President Gerald R. Ford.

Rosalin Carter was beside him the entire way in the race for the 1976 Democratic presidential

nomination and when her husband was elected in 1976 to the Office of President of the United States, she and he

redefined the model of a presidential marriage and the involvement of the

First Lady. Rosalind Carter became very well known and sometimes became very controversial

for her own role in certain presidential matters

in matters of national policy.

As we shall see, in one sense,

she set the stage for at least one model

of the modern First Lady, but not the only model.

And that has led to some very interesting situations in the US. But first

let's go back to Rosalind Carter. She was born in rural Georgia and she has been

associated with the town of Plains, Georgia, as has her husband, the former

president of the United States, for all of their adult lifetimes.

But Rosalind Carter did not expect to be First Lady of the United States when she was born in rural Georgia.

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