"We didn't have electricity on our farm as a young boy, but we had a battery-powered radio. The first radio program that I ever listened to was the Grand Ole Opry. I once told my mother, 'I want to do two things when I grow up: become President of the United States, & stand on the Opry stage.'"

President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) fulfilled his boyhood wish during the 1980 presidential campaign; he did a one-hour town hall public Q&A at the Ryman before introducing bluegrass legend Bill Monroe, who just weeks before had visited the White House and played what Carter described as "some of the sweetest music ever heard there in almost 200 years." source: https://youtu.be/uJhHfTgBLJk