Prior to his passing, Jimmy Carter was nominated in the audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category at the 2025 Grammys for “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration,” recordings from his final Sunday School lessons delivered at Maranatha Baptist Church in Georgia.
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
Carter indeed suffered important political failures. However, the facts also provide a strong case for Carter as having significant success in policies as president.
President Jimmy Carter will lie in state for a second day Wednesday after his remains arrived in Washington a day earlier as part of state funeral rites.
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.
Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.
The African continent, a booming region with a population rivaling China’s that is set to double by 2050, is where Jimmy Carter’s legacy remains most evident.
The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or former presidents to cover flags at federal government buildings and their grounds, as well as at U.S. embassies and other facilities abroad, including military installations and vessels.
I’ve always said President Jimmy Carter was my first U.S. President. Since I was born in 1970, I suppose technically, President Richard Nixon should be the name with this distinction since his time in the White House spanned from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.
In the days since his death, many people have offered tributes and assessments on the life of Jimmy Carter. Yet for many past and present Glencoe residents, they are recollecting their personal interactions with the 39th president of the United States. Carter is forever tied to Glencoe when he arrived in the village in November 1978 for a fundraiser then-U.S. Congressman Abner Mikva, days ahead of the midterm elections that year.