When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It ...

Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination ... who wrote multiple books about Reagan and Carter, pointed to the economic conditions at the time as a major ...

A series of recent historical studies have sought to sanitize the many failures of Carter's presidential term by arguing that ...

Eerie similarities between Joe Biden's hostage release deal and the deal made with Iran by former President Jimmy Carter do ...

Americans registered their verdict at the polls in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won a landslide electoral college victory (489 to 49), winning 44 of the 50 states. Carter left Reagan with a domestic ...

It was a year that shattered a presidency. For Jimmy Carter, the 12 months that culminated in the 1980 general election were marked by economic turmoil, international humiliation and a political ...

Despite his confidence during his 1980 interview, Carter lost to Reagan; he prevailed in just six states and the District of Columbia. It was a stinging defeat, and the very day Reagan was sworn ...

In late August 1980, Carter’s Cabinet and campaign began launching a series of attacks characterizing Ronald Reagan as a racist. They began when Patricia Roberts Harris, Carter’s secretary of ...

In 1980, when Carter returned to Jacksonville, one of the people there to meet him after his helicopter landed near the Gator Bowl was a 21-year-old Reagan supporter. Steve Crandall, owner of ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s recent death and funeral reminded Americans of his legacy and the values that motivated his ...

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly liberal president until Barack Obama. But everybody is wrong. Carter was the first in the conservative line of presidents more commonly ...