Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young Delaware lawmaker, became the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s outsider White House bid in 1976.
Fans of the late former President Jimmy Carter weren't happy to see Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) delivering speeches as the late Democrat was placed in the Capitol rotunda.
It’s the world’s most exclusive fraternity and, on Thursday, all five members of the so-called presidents club will gather to honor one of their own.
Exclusive: They were friends before either was a figure in national politics. Joe Biden tells USA TODAY about his last meeting with Jimmy Carter.
President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.
Jimmy Carter was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win Texas, but his defeat after one term heralded his party’s decline in the Lone Star State.
Jimmy Carter\'s first \'win\' in Iowa was over a chicken dinner The first test of this new partnership came in October 1975 at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Dinner, a statewide event with all the political theater of a national convention.
HE SAYS HE TAUGHT HIM THAT IF YOU GET KNOCKED DOWN ONCE, YOU CAN STILL GET BACK UP AND DO AMAZIN New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Raymond Buckley said while he knew this day was on its on way, the news of former President Jimmy Carter's passing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because they had so much to gab about.
The death of Jimmy Carter ... aimed at humiliating his party’s eventual nominee, ending in a contested convention over the summer. Carter eventually clinched the Democratic nomination but ...