Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

In his announcement speech for his presidential run, in 1974, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter said there ... Ford's controversial pardon of Richard Nixon, Carter believed he had a responsibility ...

Jimmy Carter was a former Navy nuclear engineer who established ... but it is also haunted by a failed promise of the nuclear ...

Jimmy Carter, as politicians go ... but Carter seemed like a welcome relief from the stench of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. I didn’t need Carter to convince me of a national malaise.

President Jimmy Carter didn't just use NASCAR as a campaign stop. He was a fan. And the last national Democrat to be truly welcomed in the sport.

The year was 1974: President Richard Nixon signed a National Maximum Speed ... In 1975, Davis gets a call from President Jimmy Carter. President Carter was responsible for finalizing and ...

Carter’s big break came in Florida on March 9, 1976, when he soundly defeated segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in a heated primary.

Running for president in the shadow of the Watergate scandal and President Richard Nixon's ultimate resignation ... is an act of strength. President Jimmy Carter's story is ultimately a story ...

Some other modern presidents — Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton ... The route also included the old train depot that served as Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign headquarters ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public ... he carried from his decision to pardon disgraced President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. The Southern liberal ...