Country musicians Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter are seen with first lady Rosalynn Carter at a reception before a concert to benefit the Carter-Mondale re-election campaign on April 23, 1980. (Public domain)

First lady Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale are seen at a ceremony welcoming her back from a Latin American trip on June 12, 1977.

It was one of the largest gatherings of U.S. first ladies in the nation’s history. From left Nancy Reagan, Lady Bird Johnson, then-current first lady Hillary Clinton, Carter, Betty Ford, and Barbara Bush are at the National Garden Gala: A Tribute to America’s First Ladies in May 1994.

Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter are seen at The Carter Center in 2016. (Public domain photos)

President Bill Clinton awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center on Plains, Georgia in 1999. (Public domain photos)

Rosalynn Carter’s official photo as U.S. first lady during her husband’s term from 1977-1981. (Public domain)

U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, at left, is seen on a visit to the Tri-State in 1980, during her husband’s primary campaign for re-election. The trip took her to Cannonsburg, Kentucky. (The Ironton Tribune | File photo)