ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - One of the grandsons of the late President Jimmy Carter said he was “devastated” to learn of the demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

“It was really upsetting,” Josh Carter said, recalling a time when his grandmother, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, worked out of the historic wing. “The history that happened in that section was unbelievable.”

Carter made his comments Thursday during a ceremony marking the honorary naming of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Before becoming Georgia’s 76th governor and later the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter attended Georgia Tech in 1942.

Construction began last month on the $300 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White

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