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.

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, seen in September 1980 ... his legacy was the way he dealt with the aftermath of the Vietnam War. By the time Saigon fell in 1975, over 58,000 American military ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

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

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter issued ...

Carter will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral ...