President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.

His impulses were right, but he took them too far. Donald Trump was a beneficiary.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they filed into the front pews at the National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for Jimmy Carter ... who sought counsel from Herbert Hoover.

As the nation’s capital prepares for former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral ... Beginning with Herbert Hoover in 1964, state funeral honors have been extended to many former presidents.

Carter’s century-long fight for a better, kinder, fairer world undoubtedly accounts for the millions of us, even those of us who didn’t vote for him, who feel genuine grief at his passing.

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams before him, Carter will mostly be remembered for what came after his time in the White House rather than those four years in it—as he should be.

In fact, in the fall of 1975, this was the title, Why Not the Best?, of a bestselling book by a new figure on the national stage: former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024 at the age of 100. The former president will be honored and remembered through several days of funeral services, before being laid to rest at his residence in Georgia next to his wife,

historians lumped Jimmy Carter with the perennial cellar-dwellers of American history: James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore and brilliant, unlucky, unloved Herbert Hoover. But unlike ...