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

After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...

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 ...

He had foreign policy stumbles and a career of service, but a 77-year marriage is what we should admire in the former president's life.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined ...

and the end of the highly divisive Vietnam war in 1975. Nixon’s replacement, Gerald Ford, was marking time until the American public could vote the Republicans out of office as punishment for Nixon’s ...

They’re Cambodian refugees who have survived in this country by running a donut shop in Fresno. They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties, their only wish ...

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.

On January 21, 1977 our President Jimmy Carter pardoned those draft dodgers, aka cowards, who ran to Canada so they wouldn’t ...

A generous description of former President Jimmy ... Carter's successor, is often credited with bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it, the end of the Cold War.