US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn greet Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy at the 40th president’s inauguration. (AFP/Getty) The death of Jimmy Carter on Sunday is causing many Americans to ...

Why was Carter's reelection effort so disastrous? Perhaps the most significant reason -- but not the only reason -- was that Iran had taken Americans hostage in 1979 and was still holding them when ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Dec. 29 at age 100. Here is a classic Throwback Thursday column about Carter's visit to Corpus Christi in the fall of 1980. Corpus Christi ...

President Ronald Reagan’s handwritten 1980 debate notes, featuring two of the most iconic campaign slogans ever, are going up for sale today, the first time the world has seen the lines of his closing ...

When former President Jimmy Carter died at home in Plains, Georgia, the 100-year-old former president was under hospice care – leaving life on his own terms. The one-term president lost his bid for ...

In 1980, as the Republicans held their national convention in Detroit, President Jimmy Carter left Washington, returned to Georgia and spent five days on Sapelo Island. That was his idea of a ...

Jimmy Carter’s insistence on putting principle over politics may have doomed him to the ranks of one-term presidents in the U.S., but it also showcased him as one of the finest individuals to ever ...

When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It was no contest. Reagan took 44 of the 50 states and won the popular vote by ...