The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100, leaving four children, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. He was the ...

Jimmy Carter's 100 years of life were filled with memorable events. Here are some of the biggest ones from the 39th president ...

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, seen in September 1980 ... his legacy was the way he dealt with the aftermath of the Vietnam War. By the time Saigon fell in 1975, over 58,000 American military ...

Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...

In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake ... LBJ, aided by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, willfully concealed the true costs of the Vietnam War for ...

The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy Carter’s four-year ... making them more efficient. At first, Carter contributed to the inflation left over ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the Middle East.

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away ... White House since before the Civil War (Virginia-born Woodrow Wilson had been governor of New Jersey). Yet Carter turned out to be very much a ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life ...