Jason Carter, grandson of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, remembered her mental health advocacy at a memorial service in Atlanta on Tuesday. “If you imagine just how far our society has come in the last five years on issues of mental health, and you think that she decided in 1970 to tackle the ancient stigma associated with mental illness, it is remarkable how far she could see and how far she was willing to walk,” Carter said.
On a more personal note, Carter remarked the former first lady could often be “like everyone else’s grandmother in a lot of ways. Almost all of her recipes call for mayonnaise, for example.” |
