Willie Nelson Once Secretly Smoked Weed on the White House Roof

• Willie Nelson once secretly smoked weed with President Jimmy Carter’s son Chip on the White House roof.
• The infamous episode was later confirmed by former President Carter himself.
• “We leaned against the flagpole at the top of the place and lit one up,” Chip Carter later recalled.

Country music legend Willie Nelson once smoked weed with President Jimmy Carter’s son Chip on the roof of the White House, a private and now infamous historic moment that the former president himself later confirmed.

The historic anecdote has taken on renewed relevance in the wake of the Secret Service finding cocaine inside of President Joe Biden’s White House. According to multiple reports, a preliminary test of an unknown white substance found inside the White House on Sunday turned out to be cocaine. The suspected drug was found in. a “work area of the West Wing,” The Washington Post reported.

Nelson initially wrote in his 1988 autobiography that he smoked with a White House servant. After former President Carter corrected the record, the music legend admitted that he had omitted Chip Carter so he could keep the president’s son out of any trouble.

“Chip and I are buddies too. He was showing me around the White House, the basement, you know they have a bowling alley down there,” Nelson told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2020 after the evening. “We went into the Lincoln bedroom and all that good stuff. “And then, we went up on the roof and looked around and that was pretty cool.”

Chip Carter decades later said that told Nelson they should get some air during a break in the musician’s performance at the White House.

“In the break I said, ‘Let’s go upstairs.’ We just kept going up till we got to the roof, where we leaned against the flagpole at the top of the place and lit one up,'” James “Chip” Carter told the Los Angeles Times.

The view, Carter recalled, was incredible.

“If you know Washington, the White House is the hub of the spokes — the way it was designed. Most of the avenues run into the White House,” he said. “You could sit up and could see all the traffic coming right at you. It’s a nice place up there.”