Carter's presidency was marred by high inflation and economic turmoil. His appointment of Paul Volcker helped curb inflation, but also led to a recession. He faced a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the general election.

A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights.

President Joe Biden declared January 9 a national day of mourning to coincide with Carter’s state funeral at Wash

Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, discusses Carter's achievements and challenges during his presidency.

Jimmy Carter was a presidential paradox – a son of the Deep ... and that even if it doomed his reelection he would choose Paul Volcker to chair the Federal Reserve, knowing full well it would mean tight money and sky-high interest rates that his advisers ...

His appointment of Paul Volcker as Federal Reserve chairman proved crucial in eventually ... NYSE Group President Lynn Martin emphasized Carter’s service, stating, “Jimmy Carter, with humble roots as a farmer and family man, devoted his life to public ...

In the last decade, particularly the last few years, a churn of work — biographies, documentaries, books — has been produced aimed at reevaluating the Carter presidency.

"We will protect our environment," Carter said in 1979. "But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it."

Dignitaries, including Supreme Court justices and members of Congress, take part in lying-in-state ceremony at Capitol Rotunda

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.