Topic: Jimmy Carter

The Many One Term Presidents

Americans may be surprised to learn that our history includes as many one-term Presidents as those who have served even parts of two terms. But from 1824 to The Civil War, only Andrew Jackson was elected twice. Jackson's hand-picked successor, Martin VanBuren, ...

Former’s Almanac 

lamented Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States, "what is there to do but drink? Richard Nixon left the White House as ignominiously as any U.S. president. After being frozen out of Washington in the Ford and Carter years, he ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter signed copies of his latest book, A Remarkable Mother, at a bookstore on Van Ness in San Francisco a few weeks ago. And yet, on October 23, 1983, under President Ronald Reagan 's watch, 241 U.S. military personnel were killed ...
The resultant Presidential blunders served to rocket Ronald Reagan into the White House . Barack Obama, ostensibly out of nowhere, has gained the Oval Office. In 2008, Obama's candidacy was the culmination of six decades of organization building by Saul Alinsky's Community ...
Being President of the United States, and in reality the free world, is a major responsibility that most individuals will not have to endure. As President you are always on the job, and you will always be in the public eye, as ...
IntroductionOn September 8, 1974 President Gerald R. Ford made one of the most controversial decisions ever made by an American president: The Pardon Attorney recommends to the Attorney General those pardons that should be granted and the Attorney General makes the final ...
Former US president Jimmy Carter has arrived in North Korea, the country's state media reported Wednesday, on what is believed to be a mission to win the release of an American jailed there for eight years.China's official Xinhua news agency, which was ...
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has arrived in North Korea, the country's state media reported Wednesday, on what is believed to be a mission to win the release of an American jailed there. China's official Xinhua news agency, which was the first ...
In recent years there has been a growing audience for books authored and signed by American Presidents. This article explores some of the most common books authored and signed by modern American presidents. One of the earliest American presidents to author a ...

Plains Dealer

The article discusses former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his home town of Plains, Georgia, where he occasionally preaches at the Maranatha Baptist Church. Various aspects of his career are reviewed, from a conservative political perspective, and the many monuments and museums ...
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