Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter snubbed the capital's elite private schools to enroll Amy, whose elder brothers were already grown, at a public ... Never miss a news moment: Sign up for USA TODAY's ...

For Americans of a certain age, that image and others of Amy Carter ... child things — walk up and down the railroad tracks, climb a tree, ride a bike.” Ms. Carter cut a bookish, innocent ...

“Amy’s been much happier,” Carter wrote in his diary in late February 1977, “since Mary Fitzpatrick got out of prison and came up to the White House to be with us.” When she first met ...