As Donald Trump places his hand atop the Bible, I'll be reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "Letter from a Birmingham ...
On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...
Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976 just one year after the U.S. was defeated in the American War in Vietnam and two years after President Nixon resigned the presidency. Carter seemed to offer ...
As Carter’s fundamental decency, intelligence, devotion to faith, commitment to public service at home and abroad, and generosity of spirit were celebrated by the eulogists, Trump was the elephant in ...
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.
Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.
It wasn’t quite enough to put him over the edge against Ford, but it helped him defeat Jimmy Carter four years later ... In the 1970s, America was reeling from the Vietnam War, stagflation, oil ...
They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties, their only wish is that I drive them ...
In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake ... LBJ, aided by Defense Secretary Robert ...
We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an ...
We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an administration that stood out for its successful championing of human rights ...