On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...
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.
Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.
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 ...
We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an ...
A week-long tribute to America's 39th President Jimmy Carter is culminating with a state funeral in Washington, D.C. All five living U.S. presidents have come together in a rare appearance to honor ...