The Camp David Accords and the treaty that resulted dramatically reduced the odds of general war — even superpower confrontation — in the Middle East.
OneJax contacted Jimmy Carter to see if he would write a letter for the local nonprofit’s annual humanitarian awards. Carter, then 97, sent a signed note congratulating the honorees, saying that he and Rosalynn were “pleased to celebrate OneJax and your theme of civility.
Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). Surprisingly, Carter did not join with the 150,000 mourners who marched from the MLK funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church though the streets of Atlanta in April of 1968.
President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.
"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of a public servant who sought to restore Americans' faith in the integrity of their government, and who was a Nobel Peace Prize-winner for his remarkable post-presidential years.
A Washington, D.C., insider reminded MSNBC viewers on Saturday about the time Donald Trump reportedly rejected a request for funds from the now-deceased Jimmy Carter. Longtime Washington insider Jonathan Alter,
“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider ,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The country was thirsting for moral renewal and for Carter, as this genuinely religious figure, to come in and clean things up."
Mr Carter’s remains, which have been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Centre since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus on Tuesday morning, accompanied by his children an
As Jimmy Carter's funeral procession travels from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., the former president is remembered as a Renaissance man from Georgia who championed peace.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the ... who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter ...