Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 30 The Washington Post on the presidency, life and legacy of Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter’s presidency began with a simple act meant to signal a new relationship...
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr....