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 ...

The crowd roared, stymieing the opening words of an awkward statesman from Georgia who stood before the Democratic National ...

For many Vietnam War resisters – myself included, it is more personal. Jimmy Carter’s first act as president was to pardon draft resisters. He then established a program for military deserters ...

And Reagan seemed particularly strong compared to his predecessor, Jimmy Carter ... the lingering trauma of Vietnam, the American public was not inclined toward more war or defense spending.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Jimmy Carter will lie in state for a second ... winning office as an outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate. He endured a rocky four years of ...

For many of us, the death and funeral of Jimmy Carter unleashed ... to have to do so after Vietnam. Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade ...