Eizenstat served as chief domestic policy advisor in the Carter administration and was the most senior Jewish official in the Carter White House

Since Carter's passing, there has been an outpouring of goodwill for the former president, whose legacy invokes images of peanut farms and the wooden frames of houses he helped build. But for many Salvadoran Americans, like me, his memory is … complicated.

Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. The title was Jimmy Carter’s idea. Peace talks were nonexistent, Israel showed no sign of ending its control over the lives of millions of Palestinians ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

In 1994, Bill Clinton was in office in the midst of a standoff with North Korea over the communist country's nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions – and even considered a preemptive strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities to destroy their capabilities.

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

Former US President Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived president in American history, has died at the age of 100.

Harris highlighted Carter’s accomplishments during his time in office, including his appointment of more Black judges to the federal bench “than all of his predecessors combined” and the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.

Former White House aide Stu Eizenstat used his eulogy to make an effort to reframe the Carter presidency as more successful than voters appreciated at the time. “He may not be a candidate for Mount Rushmore,

"Jimmy Carter’s legacy is best measured in lives ... "His significant role in achieving the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain etched in the annals of history, and his ...