Jimmy Carter's extended public farewell started Saturday in Georgia, with the flag-draped casket of the 39th president of the ...

The ceremonies carry some irony for the one-term president who campaigned as an outsider in 1976 and never mastered the city.

According to his critics, Jimmy Carter was a humanitarian president and a weak leader. He faced enormous challenges that were nearly impossible to resolve through humanitarian policies: the Soviet ...

As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do ...