A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia ... party saying, “He can’t be the President; I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the ...
From Plains to Atlanta, mourners in Georgia will pay their respects to Jimmy Carter. The service begins six days of funeral ...
This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his four-year term serving as Georgia’s governor when he used his inauguration ...
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.
In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy ... Chip Carter, the second-born son, recalled that, against all odds, his father captured the Democratic ...
In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...
Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my heart many times.” ...
It was signed “Jimmy ... party after my primary challenge, I was being asked to upgrade my effort and get even more involved in Democratic politics. This showed the savvy that took a lame-duck ...
MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...
Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...
The late President Jimmy Carter ... named after a slain Georgia nursing student may be the sharpest indication yet of a post-election shift within the Democratic Party over immigration and border ...