Conventional wisdom holds that Jimmy Carter was a failure as a president, redeemed only by his philanthropy and efforts to promote democracy in his post-presidential years. This is palpably wrong. Carter’s accomplishments at home and abroad were more extensive and longer lasting than those of almost all modern presidents.
From the Georgia Governor's Mansion to the White House, former President Jimmy Carter's journey was marked by both domestic and international accomplishments.Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor in Carter's administration,
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At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.
Former President Jimmy Carter grinned in the Oval Office in January 2009 for a photograph, a visible gap separating him from four of his successors. As the others stood shoulder to shoulder, he positioned himself off to the side, a hand in one pocket, as if to distance himself just slightly from that most exclusive club.
David Lauderdale writes that Jimmy Carter touched a lot of lives, but none quite like South Carolina’s own Jimmy Baker of Okatie.
Carter was the greatest environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt and achieved the greatest feat of personal presidential diplomacy in US history.
One of the most enduring aspects of Jimmy Carter's presidency is his green ... Carter's chief White House domestic policy adviser, Stuart E. Eizenstat, told CBS News that by the time he got ...
President Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office. But Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be remembered more favorably.
Jimmy Carter’s vote. John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were the last presidential candidates to debate with no live audience during a general election. Stuart E. Eizenstat has served half a ...
The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career.