The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of the military and conservative politicians.
As the United States marks the death of former president Jimmy Carter, many people are trying ... Regardless of the rest of Carter’s legacy, his pardon of Vietnam War resisters in Canada had a profound impact on both countries. He should be remembered ...
The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of ...
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 afterward and feel that he had a plan, and would be decisive, and has a shot at carrying out.
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Jimmy Carter lauded for humility and service in Washington before being laid to rest in Georgia
The Latest: Jimmy Carter’s casket is moved from the capitol ahead of his state funeral
Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.
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Jimmy Carter Remembered in Washington as a ‘Practitioner of Good Works’
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the Middle East.
The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from “Jimmy Who?” to his inauguration as the nation’s 39th president.
When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...
When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter issued Proclamation 4483 on his first full day in office ...
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How John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'Imagine' Became the Refrain of Jimmy Carter's FuneralSociety / The late president celebrated the impact and influence of the song, which decries war, nationalism, and excesses of capitalism. John Nichols No American president, or post-president, thought more profoundly than did Jimmy Carter about the causes of war—and about the prospects for peace.
Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in hospice care.
The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.
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