Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital. Champion of human rights, especially regarding the governments of South Korea, Iran, Argentina, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

If you’re unaware that President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100, was instrumental in preserving private-sector ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, and Republican ...

It's Carter's fourth Grammy. His posthumous Grammy joins his three previous ones for spoken word album. If the former ...

At minimum, FEMA needs a major overhaul. A trimmed down agency with a sharpened, more nimble focus would then need a strong leader such as Lt. Gen. Honoré. To use a more recent example, FEMA needs a ...

Praise for Carter's deployment of hot water solar panels ignores, among other things, his promotion of coal and synthetic ...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the ... the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the ...

In the flood of tributes following Jimmy Carter's passing, one major aspect of his legacy was largely overlooked: his unwavering commitment to rural ...

Appointing Paul Volcker was the top accomplishment of the Carter presidency, and the benefit of a more vigilant Fed continues to pay dividends.

Jimmy Carter rides a horse as a youth ... The following years — in 1977, 1978, and 1979 — Carter spoke to state officers at the White House during the State Presidents Conference, encouraging and ...

Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United ... The President may be best known for his 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. The peace treaty was a one-sided arm twisting of Israel.