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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter left behind enduring nonprofits as part of their legacy of giving back

Jan. 07, 2025 08:11 AM EST

President Jimmy Carter 's legacy of giving back endures in several nonprofits he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, supported for the almost 50 years after they left the White House. In Los Angeles on Monday, members of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles signed wooden...

Jimmy the Baptist: Carter redefined ‘evangelical,’ from campaigns to race and women’s rights

Jan. 01, 2025 12:21 PM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Before reaching the 1978 peace deal between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter managed months of intense preparation, high-stakes negotiations at Camp David and a field trip to the Gettysburg battlefield to demonstrate the consequences of war. ...

Jimmy Carter is being mourned in his tiny hometown and around the world

Dec. 31, 2024 09:46 AM EST

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Johnny Jones found out about Jimmy Carter's death within a matter of minutes. That's how it works in a small town, even for a former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner known throughout the world. “Somebody texted my wife and told her about it —...

Significant milestones in life and career of Jimmy Carter

Dec. 29, 2024 18:47 PM EST

— Oct. 1, 1924: James Earl Carter Jr. is born in Plains, Georgia, son of James Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. — June 1946: Carter graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy. — July 1946: Carter marries Rosalynn Smith, in Plains. They have four children, John William...