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his equal partner in everything i ever accomplished adding that as long as rosalyn was in the world, i always knew somebody loved me and supported me. cnn s wolf blitzer takes a look back at her remarkable life and legacy. reporter: a soft spoken small-town girl, rosalyn smith carter became one of america s most charming first ladies. born in plains, georgia, on august 18th, 1927, she was valedictorian of her high school class and met and married jimmy carter when he was in the u.s. navy. my love and respect and cherish and honor. my wife rosalynn. when mr. carter s father died in 1953, they moved back to plains to manage the family s peanut farm. i didn t want to go home. i was having a good time. i think i had thought i had outgrown plains, georgia. the i had gotten a little too big for my britches. they had four children, three boys, jack, chip and jeff, and later daughter amy. in 1962 jimmy carter entered politics and rosalynn hit the campaign trail. cam ....
Job of representing the united states abroad, but this plays to her strengths as kind of a super competent public official. she is so on top of the various complexities that are brought in front of her. i traveled with her and left me completely exhausted. had to practically peel me off the tarmac and she is, you know, going from one event to another, understanding the real subtleties of the issues in front of her, trying to remake the department on the bureaucratic end as well as to work for some diplomatic breakthrough. she hasn t had the big breakthroughs. she hasn t had the big victories that will be put on her, you know, to her credit yet. so i don t want to overstress this, but as a working secretary of state, she s doing a good job. and she s forged these important relationships. in fact, there is this famous picture where she s in last year on the steps of the elysee ....
Believes has been accomplished here. now, there were a couple of developments today. democrats led by john kerry were willing to accept two amendments, which would kind of put into a separate document the concerns republicans have had about modernization of nuclear weapons and concerns about the u.s. being able to have its missile defense not be tied to this agreement. so those sorts of things have been worked out. that s a sign of bipartisanship again. they need 67 votes to ratify a treaty. they expect to get that easily. harry reid is trying to run down the clock here and get things organized. we should see it within the half hour, certainly within the hour is what we would expect. big breakthroughs. big breakthroughs. we ll check in with you later. thanks, kelly. also, speaking of breakthroughs, another big political story. just a few hours ago, president obama took the major step of fulfilling a campaign promise by signing the repeal of don t ask, don t tell into law. president ....