Brigitte Bardot died this morning at her home in France at age 91. In her heyday, she was, in the words of the BBC, a global phenomenon. Rising to international fame in the film, "And God Created Woman" (1956), she redefined the Hollywood sex goddess image.
About 40 years ago I acquired a box filled with Jimmy Carter's early business records from Plains, Georgia, dating from the 1920s to 1960. As I sifted through the records, the most significant discovery was Carter's handwritten desk calendar books for the years 1954–1961 (except 1959, which was missing). These books traced Carter's daily routine after returning home to Plains from the U.S. Navy (when his father died in 1953) to assume responsibility for the family peanut farming business. For a presidential and historic memorabilia collector, this proved the find of a lifetime.
In January 1960, Carter he made a tourist trip to Washington, D.C. In his personal handwritten daybook for January 24–25, 1960, he recorded that he stayed at the Statler Hotel; he went sightseeing for those two days, attended a Sarah Vaughn concert, and then he took the train to Baltimore to attend a lunch at his alma mater, the United States Naval Academy. Later he left Washington for Richmond, where he went to the movies and saw the only film he had taken in during his trip:
He went to see Brigitte Bardot in, "And God Created Woman."
Rest in peace.
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