On July 15, 1979, amid inflation and long lines at the gas pump, Jimmy Carter made an economic plea to the American people.

In symbolism and substance, President Carter displayed an obsessive attention to energy. He famously installed solar panels ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley said Carter "raised the bar" on what was expected of presidents after leaving the White House and ...

So, in July 1979, the nation was in a deep, Carter-induced funk. And Carter's reaction was to ... blame the nation. That was ...

Following that group is John Adams, Bill Clinton, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, James K. Polk, George H. W. Bush (20th ...

The death of ex-President Jimmy Carter on December 26, 2024, at the age of one hundred resulted in many comments about him.

Politicians past and present gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to ...

“President Carter was four decades ahead of his time,” said Manish Bapna, who leads the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by a ... They share a fate as one-term Presidents undone by similar political troubles—inflation and the perception of growing U.S. weakness abroad.

I was 21 when Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. Over the four years of his presidency, I started my newspaper career, got married, had two daughters, bought a house and sold it and then bought another ...