Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public farewell began Saturday in the tiny Georgia town where he launched the political career that took him to the White House. The 39th ...

“He made such a landmark after he left the White House and such ... She thinks Plains now has an opportunity to become like Warm Springs, the small Georgia town so frequented by Franklin D.

Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on December 29 at the age ... who was born more than three decades after Carter left the White House in 1981. “He was ahead of his time on what ...

The man from Plains, Georgia — a pin-dot town with ... Carter delivered a nationally televised address on energy from the White House wearing a cardigan sweater and seated before a fireplace.

"From the Plains Peanut Festival to the Governor’s Mansion, to the White House—and to communities around the globe—they remained grounded and humble, and Plains always remained home in their hearts.” ...

From the beginning, Jimmy Carter seemed like a detergent who could sweep into the nation’s capital and scrub it clean.