The solemn dignity of the nation's farewell to former President Jimmy Carter and the blustery antics accompanying former President Donald Trump's impending return to the White House. Two men couldn't ...

As Donald Trump places his hand atop the Bible, I'll be reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "Letter from a Birmingham ...

On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.

Several Republican governors across the U.S. are ordering state flags, which are currently being flown at half-staff ...

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 ...

Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976 just one year after the U.S. was defeated in the American War in Vietnam and two years after President Nixon resigned the presidency. Carter seemed to offer ...

Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.

It wasn’t quite enough to put him over the edge against Ford, but it helped him defeat Jimmy Carter four years later ... In the 1970s, America was reeling from the Vietnam War, stagflation, oil ...

They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties, their only wish is that I drive them ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that ...

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...