Jimmy Carter was the only prominent white man ... he was clearly ashamed of his second, successful run for governor. He called Carl Sanders to apologize and told friends he had prayed for forgiveness.

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

As a legislator, governor, president and ex-president, he confronted the prejudices that were so much a part of where and ...

“Then, I decided to run for the U.S. Congress against ... all these things that are buzzwords today first came from Jimmy Carter when he was governor of this state. He was very progressive.” ...

John Carlin first met Jimmy Carter in 1975 on a visit Carter took ... to be Speaker and that gave me a platform from which to run for governor. I would have never run for governor if it hadn ...

In a single term as governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter propelled the ... But more than a year before he left office, Carter had already announced he was running for president, and set his sights ...

Gerald Rafshoon helped take Carter from the peanut farm to the White House. Here, he exclusively recalls some of the key moments of a decades-long relationship.

In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter said there were things he would not do to become President: "I would not tell a lie. I would not mislead ...

James Earl Carter Jr. was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can ...