Jimmy Carter
We asked global thinkers how to improve life on earth in 2025. Here are their wishes
What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to cleaning up Mt. Everest. Readers, we'd like to hear your wishes as well.
Seeking to heal the country, Jimmy Carter pardoned men who evaded the Vietnam War draft
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.
Funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter start today in Georgia
The first day of memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter begins today in his hometown of Plains, Ga., and will include stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta.
Jimmy Carter will have funeral services in Plains, Ga., Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral services will span six days, three cities and multiple places of significance from his life.
Egyptian and Israeli leaders send condolences for Carter, who brokered their peace treaty
One of the crowning foreign policy achievements of Carter's single term as U.S. president was brokering a series of agreements that later came to be called the Camp David accords in 1978.
Jimmy Carter had an early ally in the Senate: a young Democrat named Joe Biden
When they met in the mid-1970s, Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden were both political underdogs. They forged a strong friendship that lasted more than 50 years.
Carter’s single White House term still stirs controversy after more than 40 years
Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New Hampshire early in 1976 and rode that momentum all the way to Washington.
Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president and peace activist, dies at 100
Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, but he was perhaps more famous for the life he led after he left office. He was one of the biggest advocates for peace, democracy and human rights.
