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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beginning Monday, the Nixon Foundation invites the public to pay tribute to President Jimmy Carter by writing messages in a condolence book at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

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

Richard Nixon was so jive. Ronald Reagan was so jive. I didn’t believe a word he said. He was a bad actor. Jimmy Carter wasn’t an actor, and he didn’t want to be. He was so kind that you ...

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (KABC) -- One day after former President Jimmy Carter's death, dozens visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to sign a book of condolences for ...

Gail Richardson, of Placentia, signs a condolence book for former President Jimmy Carter in the lobby of the Richard Nixon Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

Running for president in the shadow of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon's ultimate resignation ... is an act of strength. President Jimmy Carter's story is ultimately a story ...