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🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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How often do you get to talk to a former President and First Lady — about love? Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter explain how they’ve kept their marriage alive for — consider this — 75 years, and how the hardest thing they ever did was not surviving the White House, but writing a book together.
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0:00.0 | A series of strange and violent deaths rocked Osage County Oklahoma a century ago. |
0:15.0 | Sisters Rita, Mini, Anna and their mother Lizzie all left behind lucrative rights to the |
0:20.0 | oil beneath Osage land, while lawman Tom White was horrified by the chilling plot he uncovered. |
0:26.5 | Join me, Tim Harford, host of the Corsary Tales Podcast, for my new two-parter on the Osage |
0:32.0 | Killings, the story behind the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon. |
0:36.5 | Part one is available now wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:56.5 | I interviewed Jimmy Carter on my show when he was president. |
1:04.5 | But it was very different sitting with him in First Lady Rosalind, coupled to couple, |
1:09.5 | and talking about something as personal as our marriages. |
1:13.5 | We flew down to Atlanta and met them at the Carter Center, their legendary humanitarian foundation. |
1:19.5 | This was our first interview for this project and what a way to start with American royalty. |
1:25.5 | We were shown into his very formal office. I remember the two huge flags on either side of the desk, |
1:32.5 | one with the stars and stripes, and the other with the presidential seal. |
1:37.5 | And he just came bounding in, this man in his 90s, and he pointed out a beautiful wooden chair that he had carved himself. |
1:45.5 | He was impressive. I'm sure it must be a challenge for Rosalind to keep up with his energy. |
1:51.5 | They've been together for an unbelievable 75 years. |
1:56.5 | So we had to ask them, how? |
2:00.5 | First of all, love and friendship goes together. |
2:03.5 | And we found a long time ago that arguments and disagreements are inevitable among two strong will people. |
2:12.5 | But we decided quite early in our marriage to give each other plenty of space. |
2:19.5 | In fact, if Rosalind's interested in something, she doesn't go her own way and she accepts my help when she needs it. |
2:29.5 | And vice versa, when I have a special interest, she gives me a penny of space of time to work on my own projects. |
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