On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...
Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...
Former President Jimmy Carter is widely acknowledged as a hardworking man who accomplished much after the presidency, but he ...
Soreath Hok is a writer and journalist from Fresno, CA. She is a 2022 National Edward R. Murrow Award winner. Jessica Tarlov ...
He had foreign policy stumbles and a career of service, but a 77-year marriage is what we should admire in the former president's life.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined ...
As was the case then, most Americans today really don’t care. A recent YouGov poll found that 36 percent of voters support Trump’s territorial and expansionist aspirations; 36 percent oppose them; and ...
Although the U.S. flag is at half-staff to mark the death of President Jimmy Carter, 8 Republican-led states will raise flags for Trump's inauguration ...
Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976 just one year after the U.S. was defeated in the American War in Vietnam and two years after President Nixon resigned the presidency. Carter seemed to offer ...
Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.