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Jimmy met Rosalynn Smith, his sister’s friend, during a summer leave from Annapolis. Rosalynn had also grown up in Plains, and their families were acquainted. During Jimmy’s final year at Naval Academy, they became engaged and were married July 7, 1946, after he graduated.

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