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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regarding Stuart Eizenstat’s “Jimmy Carter’s Unappreciated Legacy ... pardon to those who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War. I didn’t want to believe that he would really follow ...

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 ...

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