Elected in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, ran as a Washington outsider and rose to the White House ...

In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter oversaw the creation of the modern U.S. Department of Education – an accomplishment the Biden administration has hailed as a hallmark of Carter's legacy in ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s active post-presidency extended to relationships with his seven successors in the White House ...

Jimmy Carter took full advantage of the enhanced ... Overall, Carter "really understood how modern campaigns worked," Zelizer said. "He got the whole thing, how politics had changed." ...

Prince Williams/WireImage; Bettmann/Getty Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., says Jimmy Carter would have ... despite the direction of modern politics, she is inspired ...

But President Jimmy Carter shaped Alaska’s future so effectively that today, 44 years after passage of the epic conservation law that stirred pickets and protests, many Alaskans may wonder what ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. When Jimmy Carter passed away at the end of 2024, he left a remarkable ...

Carter published his first book, a campaign autobiography titled Why Not the Best? in 1975. Since then, he's written more than 30 works. "Of all our modern Presidents, Jimmy Carter was America's ...

On July 15, 1979, as the country faced an energy crisis, President Jimmy Carter gave an address that later became known as the "malaise" speech, saying America faced "a crisis of confidence." ...

Biden was indeed the first US senator to endorse Carter in his 1976 presidential bid, according to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. “We believe being ‘right’ on the issues is not ...