The former president supposedly said "the best part of heaven" is knowing that President-elect Donald Trump isn't there.

By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region' ...

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.

As no president before or since has done ... White House domestic policy adviser, 1977-1981. The background shows: President Jimmy Carter and aide Stuart Eizenstat.

When an American president dies, the world takes measure of that leader’s life and, in Jimmy Carter’s case ... but until he was no longer able, he still showed up when his schedule allowed.

It’s easy to forget after so much time has passed, but his presidency began with great promise—which still resonates today.

The former president, who served aboard submarines as a young naval officer, was “in awe” when he learned the capabilities of the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter ... Mr. Carter had no idea that his ...

Jimmy Carter was many contrasting things ... But one diehard pursuit holds no inherent contradiction: Carter’s decades-long dedication to Habitat for Humanity, the Georgia-based homebuilding ...

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my heart many times.” ...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were ... group could build within a mere week. "President Carter, also being a Navy man, and having that military background., he wants it right. He wants it done properly.

“Regarding my early life background ... up in a rural area with no piped water and no electricity, just as in Plains, Georgia, while Jimmy Carter grew up there. He beat me, though, in one ...