One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

With the most powerful Arab army withdrawn, no other Arab army, including Syria’s, was in a military position to invade Israel.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because they had so much to gab about.

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

Former President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

He championed human rights in Argentina, preserved Alaska’s wilderness and set the table for peace.

One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield. Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David peace accords in 1978. They remain

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died at 100, was an avid astronomer, with a profound curiosity for the cosmos.

Year 1977 and 1978 will be a distant memory in the minds of many people, not least because the global population median is 30.6

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

Jimmy Carter is the only president in American history whose time in office overlapped with three popes: Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II.