Famously competitive and sometimes abrasive, Jimmy Carter had many political rivalries, but he also was determined to ...

By beating Ted Kennedy in 1980, Jon Keller says Jimmy Carter opened the door for Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas and John Kerry ...

A hostage crisis in Iran, unrelenting inflation and a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy ensured Carter’s defeat in the 1980 ...

Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential bid got a big boost from Mayor Richard J. Daley. But when he ran for a second term in 1980, ...

For those of us who became adults during that time, the Carter years embraced an end to racism, a belief in empowerment and, ...

Jimmy Carter's presidency -- and his promise to never tell a lie -- predated PolitiFact's 2007 birth. Nevertheless, we fact-checked several statements the 39th president made after leaving the White ...

His failings on healthcare damaged Carter's presidency, but his focus on cost containment was right — then and now.

I will always remember Jimmy Carter for the sense of decency that he brought to the Oval Office and for his tireless ...

The late 39th President of the United States had deep connections to musicians like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman ...

The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from ...

There was a period from roughly 1960, with the Kennedy-Nixon debates, until 1991, with the first Gulf War, when broadcast ...