Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War ... offered the ...
THE casket of late President Jimmy Carter has departed the Washington National Cathedral and will be transported to its final ...
Suddenly, the government was salted with battalions of aides and agency chiefs who came not from Capitol Hill jobs or lobbying firms, but from the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements ...
His tenure as president was punctuated with unrelenting adversity, tortured from the outset by obscenely high inflation and a post-Vietnam-and ... away from the Democratic Party, employing and ...
The election of 1976 was the first presidential election since the end of the Vietnam War. The war had been ... even within the Democratic Party. Party leaders were vocal opponents, while only ...
As a young man, he worked the ticket booth at Atlanta Motor Speedway in his native Georgia. As governor ... between NASCAR and Carter’s Democratic party — that relationship included former ...
Jimmy Carter delivered a blistering Law Day address at the University of Georgia ... Democratic revival. The Democrats, however, remained badly divided from the battles over the Vietnam War ...
Many viewed Carter, who grew up selling peanuts as a teenager on his family’s land in Plains, Georgia, as an unlikely ...
Washington: Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, has ...
It’s tough these days to say “Merry Christmas” without thinking about the nearly 30 years of culture war baggage ... in the Democratic coalition, the halting way the party engages with ...
The little-known former Georgia governor tied for 12th in early polling, but he had the right plan to win the 1976 ...