On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
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 ...
After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...
Former President Jimmy Carter is widely acknowledged as a hardworking man who accomplished much after the presidency, but he ...
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 ...
They’re Cambodian refugees who have survived in this country by running a donut shop in Fresno. They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties, their only wish ...
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.
On January 21, 1977 our President Jimmy Carter pardoned those draft dodgers, aka cowards, who ran to Canada so they wouldn’t ...