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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral ...
The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.
Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...