On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
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.
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 ...
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 life after the ...
President Jimmy Carter was determined to restore a belief that government can be a force for good. How did America go from ...
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 ...
Nearly every tribute to Jimmy Carter is necessarily encumbered with ... America was in the aftermath of Watergate, the Vietnam War’s end and the sexual and social upheavals of the 1960s were ...
Read Jimmy Carter’s full obituary 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 ...