Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, but Trump keeps bringing up another Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Trump likes to cite the 99-year-old Carter as a measuring stick to belittle Biden.
Peanut Brigade organizer Dot Padgett worked alongside the Carters from Plains to the White House. She spoke with GPB's Orlando Montoya about her experience over decades of work.
On March 11 at the Carter Center, a multigenerational group of women found that a lot has changed in the decade since the release of President Carter's A Call to Action — namely, that many women now view progress on the hyper-local level as vital as that of the "big picture."
Former President Jimmy Carter has another distinction to his name. The 99-year-old is the first living U.S. president to be honored with an official White House Christmas ornament, which was unveiled Wednesday.
This Presidents Day marks a year since former President Jimmy Carter entered into hospice care, and three months since the death of former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
Tuesday's service celebrated the former first lady's accomplishments and humanity with songs, scripture and poetry. Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus and country stars Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed some of Mrs. Carter's favorite compositions.
A gathering of first ladies and presidents joined other political figures in a tribute service. But a parade of speakers said her global stature wasn't what defined her.
Rosalynn Carter was memorialized with classical music and beloved hymns, some of her favorite Biblical passages, and a rare gathering of all living U.S. first ladies and multiple presidents, including her 99-year-old husband Jimmy Carter.
The family of Rosalynn Carter is beginning three days of memorials for the former first lady and global humanitarian who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96. There will be brief ceremonies Monday in the Carters' native Sumter County, Georgia, then Rosalynn Carter's remains will travel by motorcade to Atlanta, where she will lie in repose at The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
Plains, Ga., is mourning the death of the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian. Lifelong residents and more recent transplants to Plains remembered Rosalynn Carter on Monday as an involved presence around town, despite all that she and former President Jimmy Carter achieved elsewhere.
By their own accounts, the former president and first lady weren't just spouses, but full partners who counted their relationship as their greatest achievement.
