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.

It’s easy to forget after so much time has passed, but his presidency began with great promise—which still resonates today.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer who established ... but it is also haunted by a failed promise of the nuclear ...

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 ...

Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration. Richard Nixon clasped John F.

In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter said there ... Ford's controversial pardon of Richard Nixon, Carter believed he had a responsibility ...

President Jimmy Carter didn't just use NASCAR as a campaign stop. He was a fan. And the last national Democrat to be truly ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the ... and his promise not to deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia.

The year was 1974: President Richard Nixon signed a National Maximum Speed ... In 1975, Davis gets a call from President Jimmy Carter. President Carter was responsible for finalizing and ...