When Jaws fires, there's no wave quite like it. It's similar to a regular reef break, only it's gigantic. And on January 8, it was pretty ridiculous.
Carter was in Anchorage in 2000 to celebrate the anniversary of his landmark conservation law, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The 1980 law left a historic mark on Alaska, by greatly expanding its national parks, refuges and other conservation system units.
For a president to be mentioned in the same breath as Jimmy Carter is not considered a compliment. But that won’t be his legacy. Based on the remarkable body of
Mary Elizabeth King was running a group designed to boost the paltry number of women in the top ranks of the federal government. And Joan Claybrook was one of Ralph Nader’s Raiders, the cadre of lawyers and researchers around the country pushing for consumer protections.
As we celebrate the life this week of America’s 39th president, let’s pause a moment to recall the man he vanquished: Gerald Ford.
A horse-drawn caisson will take President Jimmy Carter’s remains from a hearse to lie in state at the Capitol from the United States Navy Memorial tomorrow. Carter, died Dec. 29, 2024, at his home in Plains,
James “Jimmy” Carter, the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, who became the 39th president of the United States and later redefined the role of an ex-president through decades of humanitarian
The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of the military and conservative politicians.
My earliest memories of anything related to the presidency are yellow ribbons tied around trees. The ribbons signified the hope that 53 Americans who had been taken hostage in Iran […]
It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In his 1980 State of the Union Address, Carter said the invasion “could pose the most serious threat to world peace since the second World War.”
Jimmy Carter wrote 32 books, and many more than that have been written about his unusual presidency and remarkable life.