Rosalynn Carter made a wrongfully convicted felon a White House nanny and helped win her pardon
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In this image provided by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Amy Carter hangs from a tree as she speaks with nanny Mary Fitzpatrick on Feb. 23, 1977, on south lawn of the White House in Washington. Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia. The most personal of those cases involved Mary Prince Fitzpatrick, who went to Washington as White House nanny to Amy Carter with a felony murder conviction still on her record. (Bill Fitzpatrick/Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum via AP)FILE President Jimmy Carter, second from right, arrives at Camp David, Md., with first lady Rosalynn Carter and daughter Amy Carter, center, on Friday, Feb. 25, 1977, along with Mary Fitzpatrick, Amy's nursemaid, third from left, and two unidentified military aides as they walk toward the house at the presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains for the first time. Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia. The most personal of those cases involved Mary Prince Fitzpatrick, who went to Washington as White House nanny to Amy Carter with a felony murder conviction still on her record. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)FILE - First lady Rosalynn Carter, left, and her daughter, Amy Carter, leave the White House in Washington, March 26, 1978, for a violin lesson suburban Virginia. Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia. The most personal of those cases involved Mary Prince Fitzpatrick, who went to Washington as White House nanny to Amy Carter with a felony murder conviction still on her record. (AP Photo/File)
In this image provided by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Amy Carter hangs from a tree as she speaks with nanny Mary Fitzpatrick on Feb. 23, 1977, on south lawn of the White House in Washington. Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia. The most personal of those cases involved Mary Prince Fitzpatrick, who went to Washington as White House nanny to Amy Carter with a felony murder conviction still on her record. (Bill Fitzpatrick/Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum via AP)