When Jimmy Carter started his nongovernmental organization in Atlanta soon after leaving the White House, he reached out to his former CDC director to run it.
Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Harris eulogized the 39th president at a U.S. Capitol Rotunda ceremony, and he will now lie in state until Thursday.
More than 10,000 people visited the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta during the first 24 hours of his lying in repose, which began Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. The former president's casket was to be flown to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7 before returning to Georgia for his burial Jan. 9 in Plains.
What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to cleaning up Mt. Everest. Readers, we'd like to hear your wishes as well.
The first day of memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter began in his hometown of Plains, Ga., and included stops at the Georgia State Capitol and The Carter Center in Atlanta.
Carter served as the 39th president of the United States and the 76th governor of Georgia. He is being remembered across the globe as a humanitarian, peacemaker and a man of faith who loved his family.
The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of the military and conservative politicians.
After leaving office in 1981, former President Jimmy Carter continued to write and give speeches. But all writers, even former presidents, need editors. And for Carter, Steve Hochman filled that role.
On Oct. 1, 1986, former President Jimmy Carter spoke at the formal dedication of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. Nearly 40 years later, the museum is filled with more than artifacts of his four years as president. It is chock full of evidence of a life well-lived. Dr. Meredith Evans, director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, spoke with GPB's Peter Biello at the museum during a live broadcast of All Things Considered.
At the age of 95, the peanut farmer turned world leader used a chainsaw to personally cut down an Empress (Paulownia) tree that he and friend Todd Lundberg milled and sent to Jason Kostal, a world-class luthier with a seven-year-long waiting list for a custom-built guitar.
