In the spring of 1977, President Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who had just taken office, was offered a big gift — if you can call it that — from the misty Northern California coast.

In the many stories written about President Jimmy Carter since his passing on Dec. 30 at age 100, most all of them mention his humble origins as a peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia. Carter ...

The National Park Service released the first public images on Friday of former President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter's final resting place.

Jimmy Carter, after a successful term as governor of Georgia, returned to his home in Plains. Instead of resuming full-time peanut farming, he embarked on an unlikely campaign for the presidency of ...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s romance and 75-year marriage is an enduring part of the former president’s and first lady’s legacies. Peanut butter pie was part of that. Rosalynn Carter shared ...

The ceremonies will conclude in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried beside his wife of 77 years, ...

I invited Vietnam Veteran Leonard Matlovich to join me in Florida to campaign for Pennsylvania’s governor, Milton Shapp, who ...

I was never able to meet President Jimmy Carter. I came close to seeing him once. I was covering the parade during the Plains ...

I turned 18. I had graduated high school in May, started my college career that August and, in November, I voted for the ...