To the Editor: Re “Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024: A Peacemaker Who Never Stopped Striving” (obituary, front page, Dec. 30): Jimmy Carter improbably became president in large part because the American people rightly perceived him as a good and decent man.
In the wide range of articles published by The New York Times this week after the death of former President Jimmy Carter, a fragment of largely forgotten Canadian history resurfaced. Image Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on Fifth Avenue in New York in 197
“This is not a message of happiness or reassurance. But it is the truth.” — President Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979 Since Americans began buying television sets, several commanders in chief have been given the title “TV president”: Richard Nixon, who
As a governor of Georgia harboring higher aspirations, Jimmy Carter did like many other politicians who wanted to be president: He wrote a book declaring his vision for America. After leaving the White House, he wrote another book, a memoir offering
Seven months ago, Carter Vail released “Dirt Man,” a fairly ridiculous song that is just over 30 seconds long. “It just came to me while I was sleepingponeclub,” he said. The song is about leaving dirt under his pillow for “the dirt man.” The silly
Jimmy Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States on a promise of national healing after the wounds of Watergate and Vietnam, then lost the White House in a cauldron of economic turmoil at home and crisis
In August 1979, Brooks Jackson, a reporter for The Associated Press, broke the news that a “killer rabbit” had attacked President Jimmy Carter. It was a “throwaway story,” he said, but one that took on a life of its own and, in a strange way, became