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n the new documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, the 39th president confirms that, yes, country legend Willie Nelson did indeed smoke pot on the roof of the White House in 1988 though it was actually with Carter's son, and not a White House worker, as Nelson has previously said.
"When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, he confessed that he smoked pot in the White House one night when he was spending the night with me," Jimmy Carter says in the doc. "And he says that his companion that shared the pot with him was one of the servants in the White House. That is not exactly true it actually was one of my sons, which he didn't want to categorize as a pot-smoker like him."
Stories about the incident between Nelson, now 87, and James Earl Chip Carter III had swirled for years.
The film currently available in select theaters and virtually recounts Carter's second child as serving of something as a liaison between musicians and the administration. (For his part, Chip briefly commented on what happened in 2015, telling GQ that Nelson "told me not to ever tell anybody."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-carter-says-willie-nelson-184935533.html
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)I think not...that must be 77.
pnwest
(3,265 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Before he took up with his Texas pals, he had been for some time a top Bluegrass musician and Nashville standout. Truly interesting person. If I ever smoke a joint, Willie Nelson would be the person who I would want to be sitting across from at that moment.
MagickMuffin
(15,893 posts)Well actually I got to see Willie on several occasions in local Honky Tonks, very intimate settings. Everyone would be passing Willie alcohol and yet there I was offering a joint. Of course he would take it, hit it and pass it on.
He eventually gave up drinking but not smoking.
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)It wasn't all that long after that, that the IRS came after him. I always thought that it was some self-righteous A-hole in Raygun's administration that took offense to that story and sicked the IRS on him out of spite.
Music Man
(1,181 posts)Carter was not president in '88.
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)The best sort.
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Reagan was president in 1988. Although, it makes an even better story if Willy and Chip Carter snuck into the White House then!