The night that former president Jimmy Carter met his future wife, Rosalynn, he had planned on going out on quite a lovely date -- with a completely different woman. One Sunday evening in the 1940s, Carter had intended to take out a Georgia beauty queen; however, a family reunion prevented her from going out with the peanut-farmer-turned-midshipman. So Carter, on a break from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, drove around his hometown of Plains, Georgia , looking for someone to hang out with. That's when he laid eyes on Rosalynn.
"I wanted to have a date because I was getting ready to go back to Annapolis for another time of isolation," Carter tells Oprah in the above clip from his "SuperSoul Sunday" interview . "I was cruising around... and saw Rosalynn on the front steps of the Methodist church."
Something about Rosalynn struck Carter, who immediately asked if she'd like to go see a movie with him. She agreed.