Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Last May I was in Washington, D.C., on business and stopped by the National Portrait Gallery, where I spent all my time viewing the portraits of all the U.S. presidents. Much to my surprise, the one single portrait I was most taken with was that of Jimmy Carter. I recall its being a full-length portrait and what knocked me out was how it radiated selfless character, integrity and dignity. No other portrait came close to...

"He was standing on the sidewalk in Bangor, alone, waiting for a ride. That’s where I met Jimmy Carter," Don Carrigan recalls. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video The breakfast meeting was at Sing’s Restaurant, and there were around 25 to 30 people there to hear from the former Georgia governor. He wasn’t well known around the country, so he was making stops at places like Bangor to begin building a base among local Democrats. It was very...

Locations where official events will take place before President Carter is laid to rest in his hometown. Before President Jimmy Carter is buried in a private ceremony in Plains, Georgia, near the pond he could see from the porch of his house, his body will travel to the Georgia Capitol and the U.S. Capitol for public farewells. Carter died Dec. 29 in his home at age 100 in the southwest Georgia town of Plains, where he and Rosalynn, his wife of 77 years, resided for most of their lives. State...

The impact of his single-term foreign policy is still felt around the globe. A generous description of former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy track record during his four tumultuous years in the White House would be one defined by peaks and valleys. There were highlights. Many see Carter's role in brokering the Camp David Accords, a revolutionary set of treaties between Israel and Egypt that would forever change the diplomatic landscape of the Middle East, as the foreign policy apex of his presidency. But there were also stinging failures, including...

I’ve always said President Jimmy Carter was my first U.S. President. Since I was born in 1970, I suppose technically, President Richard Nixon should be the name with this distinction since his time in the White House spanned from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. However, it’s President Carter’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 1977, which is forever etched in my memory as my first knowledge of a first family moving into the White House. I found myself teary and choked up when I heard the news of President Carter’s passing...

“It’s hard to put into words what a nice reprieve from the current political theater this moment was,” Sheffield told Channel 2 Action News in 2017. Jill Vejnoska, a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the time who covered Jimmy Carter closely, reported back then: In fact, what Carter did last week was nothing new. He’s long made a habit of shaking his fellow passenger’s hands when he boards a flight — even greeting an AJC reporter and his bride thusly nearly two decades ago as they were taking off...

There's a persistent truism out there that while Jimmy Carter was an execrable president, he was nevertheless a great ex-president. He may have done some worthy deeds around the eradication of disease and the building of homes for the homeless. But he was every bit as bad an ex-president as he was a sitting president. It wasn't just his nasty, irritable personality, as described by newsman and AT contributor Peter Chowka here, and former U.S. diplomat Lewis Amselem from firsthand experience as bystanders in random events. It was in his...

History remembers Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency more kindly than his presidency for a host of reasons. One could certainly be that as president, Carter didn’t champion election integrity laws–but reforms such as voter ID are nevertheless a lasting part of his legacy. It was 1977 when a young senator of Carter’s own party–Joe Biden–explained his opposition to a Carter proposal to allow Election Day voter registration. The first-term Delaware Democrat proclaimed, a “reservation I have and one that is apparently shared by some of the top officials within the Department of...