A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades. But how much of what really happened is public?
Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the Middle East.
In 1994, Bill Clinton was in office in the midst of a standoff with North Korea over the communist country's nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions – and even considered a preemptive strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities to destroy their capabilities.
As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.
Visitors to the center, which features a rich collection of historic documents, artifacts and other items documenting Reagan’s presidency, were urged write down their thoughts about Carter,
When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as“ that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for president.
The tragedy of Jimmy Carter’s presidency is that he and his potential liberal allies became adversaries, partly out of misunderstanding, but also, perhaps, because they understood each other too
President Jimmy Carter, the first politician to get me excited about politics, was a good man and a great man. His personal qualities, however, didn't translate into political success, and that was the job.