Happy President's [Kid's Cat's] Day!
this is Amy Carter with her cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang.
While Carter was in the White House, [his daughter Amy] had a Siamese cat named Misty Malarky Ying Yang, which was the last cat to occupy the White House until Socks, owned by Bill Clinton. Carter also was given an elephant from Sri Lanka from an immigrant; the animal was given to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. -via Wikipedia
(Yeah I know I'm skipping around a bit. The Obamas kept dogs, Bushs Senior also kept dogs. Reagans did have cats, as well as dogs, but opted to keep their pets at their ranch away from the White House. Suffice to say, a lot of presidents kept pets. Just gonna hit the highlights from here on.)
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Mary Prince, a Black woman who had been convicted of murder, was already a controversial figure at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Presidential Inauguration.
Although she was incarcerated, Prince was given permission to travel to Washington, D.C. for the event and arrived in a dress made of material given to her by her fellow inmates at the Fulton County Jail and the Atlanta Work Release Center. At the end of the celebration, Prince remembers newly minted First Lady Rosalynn Carter pulling her aside. "Before I left, Mrs. Carter said, 'How would you like to work in this big old place?'" Prince told People that year.
Rosalynn Carter and Prince had known each other for years at that point, and had developed a close bond. Prince had been young Amy Carter's nanny when the family lived at the Georgia governor's mansion, not long after Prince was accused of—and subsequently sentenced to life for—murder. When the Carters arrived at the White House, most political operatives would have advised the family to keep their distance from Prince. But the first couple did the opposite.
After the inauguration, Prince told Rosalynn that she would indeed be interested in working at the White House. And Rosalynn pulled out all the stops: She secured a reprieve for Prince, helped make President Carter her parole officer and officially hired her to serve as Amy Carter's nanny at the White House.
Rosalynn Carter, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, and her husband remained lifelong friends with Prince, and were both staunchly convinced she was wrongly convicted in the 1970 shooting death of a man outside a bar in Lumpkin, Ga., after an argument involving Prince’s cousin.
“She was totally innocent,” Rosalynn Carter told Kate Anderson Brower for her 2015 book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, bristling at the slightest hint of wrongdoing. “She had nothing to do with it.”
Both Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter earned a reputation for decency over the decades, and their relationship with Prince, who grew up in poverty in Georgia and dropped out of school in the seventh grade to care for her younger sister, gives more credence to their interest in helping the most vulnerable members of society.
The Carters first met Prince in late 1970 when Jimmy Carter was serving as Georgia governor, and Prince applied for a job as part of a program to put prisoners to work. Prince quickly made a positive impression on Rosalynn Carter, who asked the young woman if she would be interested in taking care of a then-3-year-old Amy Carter. It was a match made in heaven: the toddler bonded so much with her new nanny that she reportedly cried every time Prince left.
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(via and everything else too: Amy Paper Doll)
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...my music.... my music...
1. to 4. Irina Ioana Baiant and Adrian Nour, Romania 2015
5. and 6. Astrid Giske and Espen Grjotheim, Norway 2018-2019
7. Mira Ormala and Espen Grjotheim, Norway 2018
8. Astrid Giske and Espen Grjotheim, Norway 2019
9. to 11. Astrid Giske, Norway 2018-2019
12. and 13. Astrid Giske and Andreas Hoff, Norway 2019
14. and 15. Amy Manford and Ben Forster, Greece 2020
16. Georgia Wilkinson and Dougie Carter, Greece 2023
17. Harriet Jones and Tim Howar, Greece 2023
(MOTN in Romania / Norway / Greece, designed by Andrew Riley)
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