Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100, leaving four children, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history.

Jimmy Carter's 100 years of life were filled with memorable events. Here are some of the biggest ones from the 39th president ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of ...

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.

Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life ...

As the United States marks the death of former president Jimmy Carter ... Regardless of the rest of Carter’s legacy, his pardon of Vietnam War resisters in Canada had a profound impact on ...

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my heart many times.” ...

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, seen in September 1980 ... his legacy was the way he dealt with the aftermath of the Vietnam War. By the time Saigon fell in 1975, over 58,000 American military ...