That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and ...

"I was immediately struck by how young he looked — not the drawn and pale president I had seen on TV, reporting on the ...

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

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 ...

12:08 p.m. Carter’s casket is escorted out of Washington National Cathedral to begin his final trip to Plains, Georgia. 12:06 p.m. The congregation is dismissed.

This story originally ran in The Smoky Mountain News in November 2018 following Politics Editor Cory Vaillancourt’s trip to ...

President Carter was someone who the South could be proud to call its own. He embodied the best qualities of the region while rejecting those that held us back as a country and as a people. He was ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - James Earl Carter Jr. left on Tuesday for his final trip to Washington – a city where he served as the nation’s 39th president – after lying in repose in Atlanta ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - James Earl Carter, Jr., will make his final trip to Washington, D.C., Tuesday, a city where he served as the nation’s 39th president, after lying in repose in ...

The first events reflected Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades on the ...

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at ...