One of Former President Jimmy Carter‘s defining moments was being the president who managed to broker the first peace agreement in the Middle East, successfully ushering in peace between Israel and Egypt after 30 years of war. With the Camp David Accords of 1978, Carter was able to stand out from his predecessors by notching a success in an area where they had failed.  The feat became particularly...

In his one term in the White House, the late President Jimmy Carter struck the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, helped take the world further from nuclear proliferation with the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), signed the Panama Canal Treaties, which ended a century of direct American control over the crucial canal, and deregulated the nation’s airline industry. But Carter, a former Georgia governor who...

Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president, has died at the age of 100. He served a single term as president, but he also will be remembered for his decades of humanitarian work.  Those who knew him – opponents and supporters alike – described him as a man of integrity, whatever flaws he may have had as president.  “When we look at the whole thrust of Jimmy Carter’s life,...