
Jimmy Carter and the sad saga of a 9-ton Northern California peanut
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 —…
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Jimmy Carter Was the First ‘Born Again’ U.S. President
Jimmy Carter was the first American president to describe himself as “born again,” now a somewhat quaint term for experiencing a rebirth through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It…
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Calmes: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and revisionist presidential history
For my entire career, it’s seemed, the Republican Party has run against Jimmy Carter. From my novice reporter days in Texas beginning midway through his single term, through my years…
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How Jimmy Carter Bonded With the Allman Brothers
Chuck Leavell remembers when he and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band heard that Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia wanted to drop by and visit them at Capricorn Studios…
Read More »Carter changed the way world saw the U.S. – often for the better
WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter ended his one-term presidency in defeat. For years he was derided as a weak leader. But over time a fundamental shift took place in how Carter was…
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Americans wait in cold to bid farewell to ex-President Carter
WASHINGTON — First came the public pomp, in dying hours of winter daylight: a horse-drawn caisson bearing the flag-draped casket, dignitaries with bowed heads, the snow-muffled echo of a military honor…
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Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday
Former President Jimmy Carter, who disavowed the trappings of the imperial presidency and never gave up his humble Georgia roots, will nonetheless be given an elaborate national send-off starting on…
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Who Are the Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
President Biden recognized an expansive cast of public figures, celebrities and cultural luminaries on Saturday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, covering a list of…
Read More »Jimmy Carter dies; 39th president became human rights advocate
Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, promising “honest and decent” government to Watergate-weary Americans, and later returned to…
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Column: Jimmy Carter’s accomplishments obscured by reelection defeat
In the lives of public figures a tale often takes hold and that narrative becomes their story. In the case of Jimmy Carter, it goes like this: A humble peanut…
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President Carter and the Mideast: Long-ago success and lasting wounds
Of all the legacies of Jimmy Carter, his engagement with the Middle East might have been the most complex and consequential — and perhaps the most painfully incomplete. At its…
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Column: Carter was the right candidate, but was he the right president?
SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he…
Read More »‘Hanging Out With Jimmy Carter,’ Biden Faces the Echoes of History
President Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office. But Mr. Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be…
Read More »Among Presidents, Jimmy Carter Was the Odd Man Out
Jimmy Carter’s relationship with his successors in the Oval Office, both Republicans and fellow Democrats, was generally tense because of his outspokenness. That never mattered to him. Source link
Read More »Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100
Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad. Source link
Read More »Opinion: Jimmy Carter had a second term. It just wasn’t in the White House
At a campaign event in Winston-Salem on the eve of the 1976 North Carolina Democratic primary, a voter asked then-candidate Jimmy Carter whether he was a “born again” Christian. Carter,…
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Jimmy Carter dies: California leaders recall ‘a man of rare character’
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers expressed their condolences Sunday after former President Carter’s death at 100. He was remembered for the role he played in a post-Watergate world and for leaving one…
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Breakfast and politics with Jimmy Carter in a tense in Khartoum
Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum. It was a sweltering morning and the sun shone on the Nile as the clamorous city was rousing to life. Carter was…
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