When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

On January 21, 1977 our President Jimmy Carter pardoned those draft dodgers, aka cowards, who ran to Canada so they wouldn’t ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

Jimmy Carter's 100 years of life were filled with memorable events. Here are some of the biggest ones from the 39th president ...

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, seen in September 1980 ... his legacy was the way he dealt with the aftermath of the Vietnam War. By the time Saigon fell in 1975, over 58,000 American military ...

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

In the popular imagination, Jimmy Carter is associated with ... rights agenda” for US foreign policy. But Carter was also very much a Cold War president. The great theme of the first half ...

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away ... White House since before the Civil War (Virginia-born Woodrow Wilson had been governor of New Jersey). Yet Carter turned out to be very much a ...

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 life ...

And Reagan seemed particularly strong compared to his predecessor, Jimmy Carter ... the lingering trauma of Vietnam, the American public was not inclined toward more war or defense spending.