On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.
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 ...
It was bipartisanship that gave us the Vietnam War and the Iraq War ... up on Thursday morning during Gerald Ford’s eulogy of Jimmy Carter, a posthumous tribute that demonstrated that political ...
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.
As was the case then, most Americans today really don’t care. A recent YouGov poll found that 36 percent of voters support Trump’s territorial and expansionist aspirations; 36 percent oppose them; and ...
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) President Jimmy ... The Carter funeral might have been a bookend to the 2018 funeral of Sen. John McCain, which was partly planned, and wholly perceived, as the war hero ...
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.