5. Throughout her decades of public service, Rosalynn Carter has been a driving force for mental health. As active honorary chair of the President's Commission on Mental Health, she presented President Carter with the commission’s recommendations for sweeping reforms to mental health policy and programs on April 27, 1978. The report led to the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980. (Photo: Jimmy Carter Library)
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