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 ...

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

During Carter's presidency, many thought they would no longer have to sign up for possible military service. As one Rolling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 White ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...

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 ...

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.