Jimmy Carter has set the record straight for who joined Willie Nelson in a smoking pot on the roof of the White House during Carter’s presidency.
He was not a White House staff member, he was one of Carter’s sons.
“When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, he confessed that he drank pot in the White House one night while spending the night with me,” Carter, 95, says in a new documentary, “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President” published Friday , According to the Los Angeles Times.
“And he says his partner who shared the pot with him was one of the White House servants. That’s not exactly true – he was really one of my sons, whom he didn’t want to classify as a pot-smoker like him. “
The documentary explores Democrats’ relationships with many musicians, including Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers, during their time at the White House from 1977-1981.
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Former President Jimmy Carter and country singer Willie Nelson. (Carter Presidential Library)
“It simply came to our notice then. The response from the musicians’ followers was more impressive than people thought. [of] He is unfit for the presidency, he said, according to the Times.
‘Big fat Austin torpedo’
In 2015, Carter’s son James Earl “Chip” Carter III – now 70 years old – confesses in GQ that Nelson told me to “never say no to anyone”. Austin Torpedo. ”
For the documentary, Carter III said he and Nelson went upstairs during a break while the singer was jamming at the White House in the summer of 1980, according to the New York Post.
“I said, ‘Let’s go upstairs.'” We continued on until we got to the roof, where we leaned against the flagpole at the top of the venue and lit one, “he said. Go to the house. You can sit down and see all your traffic coming towards you. There is a nice place. “
“We leaned against the flagpole at the top of the venue and lit one.”
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Carter’s other children and former First Lady Rosalin Carter, Jack Carter, 73; Donal Carter, 68; And Amy Carter, 52.
The former president has recently fallen ill, but only last month he managed to make a virtual appearance in support of B Biden for the presidency.
Carter is the most alive former president.
