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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:04 PM Sep 2020

People Jimmy Carter Says Willie Nelson Smoked Pot with His Son on the Roof of the White House

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.&quot

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-carter-says-willie-nelson-184935533.html

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People Jimmy Carter Says Willie Nelson Smoked Pot with His Son on the Roof of the White House (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I bet Ronald Reagan was surprised, LOL. 50 Shades Of Blue Sep 2020 #1
Willie Nelson is 87? stillcool Sep 2020 #2
nope. he's 87. pnwest Sep 2020 #3
Willie Nelson has had one of the longest musical careers on record. Blue_true Sep 2020 #4
I have! MagickMuffin Sep 2020 #6
I Read His Autobiography When It Came Out... JimGinPA Sep 2020 #5
I think the article means 1978. Music Man Sep 2020 #7
I really like the Carters. And Willie too. KentuckyWoman Sep 2020 #8
This must be 1978, not 1988. yardwork Sep 2020 #9
Good place to smoke pot. SWAT's not going to get you there. Klaralven Sep 2020 #10

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
4. Willie Nelson has had one of the longest musical careers on record.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:32 PM
Sep 2020

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)
6. I have!
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:21 PM
Sep 2020

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)
5. I Read His Autobiography When It Came Out...
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:10 PM
Sep 2020

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.


yardwork

(61,418 posts)
9. This must be 1978, not 1988.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:27 PM
Sep 2020

Reagan was president in 1988. Although, it makes an even better story if Willy and Chip Carter snuck into the White House then!

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