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 ...
Carter's is the only signature in pencil. On country roads leading to Atlanta, people across Georgia paid their respects to the late president and former governor Jimmy Carter. Images posted to ...
A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter was hardly the front ... I don’t even know him!” according to Carter biographer Kai Bird. Yet when the Democratic Party ...
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 ...
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 ...
Former President Jimmy Carter ... West Virginia’s Democratic Party chairman, state Del. Mike Pushkin added that Carter’s legacy is one of "humility, integrity and relentless service." ...
Carter made several significant visits to Wisconsin, including building Habitat for Humanity homes in Milwaukee in 1989.