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It's the small things that can sometimes sway an outlook in the most profound way. Take, for example, the late President Jimmy Carter's historic peace-accords meeting with Israeli Prime ...

During most of the 100 years of his life, and even in these first two weeks of his death, former President Jimmy Carter has been gifting us with the enduring example of how he chose to live his life.

The funeral Thursday of former President Jimmy Carter brings back powerful memories of what I believe was his greatest ...

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Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States who ... The deal, which capped 16 months of negotiations, led to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister ...

The late President Jimmy Carter presided over a key landmark in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the 1979 Camp David Accords signed by Egypt and Israel. Carter’s lifelong interest in resolving the ...

Since the news of Jimmy Carter’s death on Dec. 29, local artist and illustrator Nip Rogers has been thinking of the images ...

Carter, at 100 the nation’s longest living president, died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains. The scene this week in Washington, at the National Cathedral Thursday and as he was lying in state for three ...

Ford said he and Carter agreed the US should more directly take on “the Palestinian issue” in order to work toward lasting ...

Throughout his life, he showed us what it means to be a practitioner of good works and a good and faithful servant of God and ...

The funeral of former president Jimmy Carter featured a surprise eulogy from the late former president Gerald Ford, the Republican he ousted from the presidency in a bitter 1976 race but went on to ...