Twenty six thousand seven hundred and sixty five days -- and counting. The couple went on their first date in 1945. They married the following year. He was 21. She was 18. He is now 95. She is 92. And their love story is still going strong.
That's more than 73 years. And that's how long former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have been married -- making them the longest married presidential couple. The Carter Center celebrated the milestone Thursday when the couple bested the record held by the late George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. And to think it might have turned out differently.When Jimmy Carter first proposed, Rosalynn Smith -- as she was known then -- rejected him.
As she recounted in her memoir,"First Lady from Plains," the pair grew up three years and three miles apart. Read MoreThere were no girls in town who were her age. So Rosalynn became best friends with Jimmy's younger sister. "I thought he was the most handsome young man I had ever seen," she wrote in her memoir.Her father died when she was 12. But she kept her promise. She graduated from Georgia Southwestern College. The pair went on their first date in 1945.
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