Disappearance
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The wife of the former Democratic president for seventy-seven years shared his commitments and decision-making at the White House from 1977 to 1981, while leading her own battles. She died on Sunday November 19 at the age of 96.
She died there, exactly where she had been born ninety-six years earlier, in the village of Plains, Georgia, alongside her husband, Jimmy. But Rosalynn Carter’s itinerary will have taken her from campaigns across the United States to official trips and humanitarian missions all around the world, via the Oval Office, from where she worked alongside her presidential husband in 1977 in 1981 to emancipate the status of first lady, from a role of chief hostess of the White House to that of assertive actress of American political power. The announcement of his death on Sunday, November 19, sparked tributes on a transpartisan scale that have become extremely rare in the United States, from major voices in the Democratic Party at the conservative ends of the ideological spectrum, honoring in unison almost a century of struggles and of conquests on the fronts where her convictions had led her. Firstly, recognition of mental health issues, dignified care for people in dependent situations, equal rights between men and women – without always being endorsed by the feminist movement, for example not having been in favor, due to his religious convictions, of the right to abortion.
In a joint statement, Joe and Jill Biden praise this woman having “charted his own path, inspiring a