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.

Five current and former U.S. presidents have come together for Jimmy Carter’s funeral WASHINGTON -- As ... Truman, who sought counsel from Herbert Hoover. One of the first calls Obama made after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 was to George ...

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 ...

Defeated presidential candidates have historically shared the inauguration stage with their successors, symbolizing the peaceful transfer of power

The section of U.S. Code commonly known as the “Flag Code” is a set of guidelines for the proper display of the American flag. It’s not law, and someone who does not follow the guidelines won’t be hauled off to jail or charged with some crime. Still, it’s standard protocol, a set of time-honored norms intended to establish a system of respect.

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.