Medal ceremonies like these recent ones are the hand of government slapping itself across the faces of a majority of Americans.

Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama ... who mounted a successful political comeback after his defeat four years ago and who in less than two weeks will return to the White House.

Even Democrats like Bill Clinton treated Carter as an embarrassment ... rights and even feigned respect for the segregationist George Wallace. That’s an ethically complicated side of Carter ...

Harris, 60, won one fewer electoral vote than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did in her own ... who could only get 111 votes in his 1988 defeat by George W. Bush. The drama-free joint ...

Carter, who left the White House in 1981 after a landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan ... Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, remains a leading advocate for action ...