A series of recent historical studies have sought to sanitize the many failures of Carter's presidential term by arguing that ...

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away ... As a result, the nation experienced high inflation and high unemployment—a concept also known as ”stagflation,” which is something we’re facing today. But ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

With his apparent failure abroad and inflation at home, President Carter was defeated in a Reagan Republican landslide in November 1980. This was not the end of the Jimmy Carter story. He set up ...

He's a one-term Democrat who's leaving office amid domestic discontent with inflation ... but it also sounds a lot like the late Jimmy Carter. The parallels between the two are "uncanny," Richard ...

I wasn’t a born pundit, but even I could have told you in 1979—when I was 7 years old—that Jimmy ... timing. Carter didn’t cause that oil crisis—it was the Iran-Iraq War. Inflation ...

Carter’s admirable post-White House life, especially his Habitat for Humanity work, continually enhanced his personal ...

And Reagan seemed particularly strong compared to his predecessor, Jimmy ... Carter oversaw a defense buildup that by 1980 called for a 14% annual budget increase (actually closer to 5% after ...