One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the Middle East.
Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.
Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.
As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.
They elected Ronald Reagan whose campaign projected strength ... after Carter’s stinging rejection by American voters. "Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency would be known for many things ...
In reflecting on Jimmy Carter’s death ... How would the world have been different had President Ronald Reagan not removed the solar panels that Carter had installed on the White House roof ...
Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly ... line of presidents more commonly associated with Ronald Reagan. Carter’s 1980 defeat by Reagan, after serving a single term ...
Reagan's greatest conflict was not with Iran, but the Soviet Union -- and he handled it much differently than Carter handled the hostage crisis. In 1977, Richard Allen -- who would later become Reagan's first national security adviser -- was thinking of running for governor of New Jersey. So, he traveled to California to ask Reagan for his support.
For President Jimmy Carter, the indignities were many. Unable to secure the freedom of the American hostages in Iran, powerless against an inflation crisis, challenged by a member of his own party in the 1980 presidential primary and then voted out after one term — the first president to meet this humbling fate since Herbert Hoover in 1932.
The 39th president will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral.