When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter issued ...

The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of ...

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

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Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...

In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake ... LBJ, aided by Defense Secretary Robert ...

“Jimmy Carter was a blessing that helped to create a great United ... when he pardoned all who had left the country to evade ...

The consensus among historians, journalists, and analysts has long been that President Jimmy Carter’s four-year ... making them more efficient. At first, Carter contributed to the inflation left over ...

As the United States marks the death of former president Jimmy Carter ... Regardless of the rest of Carter’s legacy, his pardon of Vietnam War resisters in Canada had a profound impact on ...

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...