Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29, initially won over Ohioans with his values, but it wasn't enough to keep their trust.

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

It’s easy to forget after so much time has passed, but his presidency began with great promise—which still resonates today.

Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other American ... from his controversial decision to pardon disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal. Famously promising that he would ...

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer who established ... but it is also haunted by a failed promise of the nuclear ...

In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake ... fiscal and monetary decisions by ...

Carter’s big break came in Florida on March 9, 1976, when he soundly defeated segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in a ...

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...

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 ...

President Jimmy Carter didn't just use NASCAR as a campaign stop. He was a fan. And the last national Democrat to be truly ...

Jimmy Carter’s melancholy fate was to be a largely derivative figure: He was a reaction against his elected predecessor and the precursor of his successor. Richard Nixon made Carter tempting ...

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.