The ad then singled out Reagan and John Anderson ... Paul Laxalt, responded to the Carter campaign’s negative attacks with a seven-page open letter to newspaper editorial writers.

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a ...

Carter’s trademark smile faded during a grueling reelection campaign against former California governor and Hollywood star Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee. “He’s going to take us into ...

Twelve months later, Carter lost 44 states. His campaign scurrilities against Reagan — accusing him of racism and other vices — were, the liberal New Republic said, “frightful distortions ...

What do George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have in common? Each would have made a ...

The death of Jimmy Carter on Sunday is causing many Americans ... The question has remained whether Reagan’s campaign directly or indirectly delayed the return of the hostages through the ...

giving credit to Carter, but too late to aid his chance of being re-elected. The hostages, their families and friends, and even the American people were the victims of the Reagan campaign’s misdeed.

Jimmy Carter during the Democratic National Convention in New York in July 1976. (Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images) The nation is laying Jimmy Carter to rest with a celebration of a legacy that has ...

Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

The campaign stops didn’t help Carter’s cause however. He lost Lucas County to the next president, Ronald Reagan, by less than one percentage point and lost the state of Ohio by 11%.

Twelve months later, Carter lost 44 states, becoming the only 20th-century president defeated after his party had held the office for only four years. His campaign scurrilities against Reagan ...

Richard Nixon made Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary. The deceits and crimes of Nixon’s imperial presidency bred Carter’s pompous crusade against pomp. Carter proclaimed ...