Tag: Jimmy Carter

  • Trump is scheduled to be sentenced for his New York conviction

    Ex-US President Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday to three years’ probation after he was convicted in a hush-money case. Trump has argued that he is free from prosecution and sentencing after the US Supreme Court last year said that presidents enjoy broad immunity from prosecution. This comes a day after Jimmy Carter’s funeral and…

  • Some of the living presidents are expected to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral

    President-elect Donald Trump, after paying his respects to former US President Jimmy Carter, said, “I viewed him as…good man, high moral values.” Trump also said that he and wife Melania met with members of the Carter family earlier in the day. “He was one of the great presidents of our time,” Trump added.

  • A biographer says Jimmy Carter was an unusual kind of politician

    A biographer says Jimmy Carter was an unusual kind of politician

    Former US President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Monday aged 90, was a Southern Baptist and the time for racism and discrimination in America, historian Kai Bird said in his biography ‘The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter’. “When he was…smartest boy in the room,” Bird added. Bird further said that Carter supported…

  • Carter’s single term in the White House stirred controversy for more than 40 years

    Former US President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981 for his humanitarian and peace initiatives. Carter won it for “his efforts in promoting the elimination of poverty, injustice, and violence in all its forms”. He also won the Peace Prize in 1982 for his “struggle to end the Vietnam War”, stating,…

  • America needs more Jimmy Carters

    America needs more Jimmy Carters

    Ex-US President Jimmy Carter passed away on Tuesday at the age of 90 due to cancer. Carter, who served as US President from 1977 to 1981, is remembered for freeing 52 Americans and a diplomat in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ seizure of 52 US hostages. He was honoured with the Nobel…

  • There are 10 essential books about Jimmy Carter

    There are 10 essential books about Jimmy Carter

    Former US President Jimmy Carter, who passed away at the age of 91 on Sunday, was known to have written many books. “Of all our modern presidents…Carter was America’s mostneminent author,” his publisher Jonathan Karp said. Carter’s memoir describes his rural Georgia childhood during the Great Depression, as well as his takes on contemporary issues…

  • The 39th US President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100

    The 39th US President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100

    The US Embassy in Tehran has been invaded and occupied by Iranian students. Over 50 Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran prior to Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Carter negotiated a nuclear arms deal with North Korea in 1994 and helped negotiate a peace deal between Israel and Palestine.

  • America needs more Jimmy Carters

    America needs more Jimmy Carters

    Former US President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 on Sunday in Plains, Georgia. He was the fourth US President to die in office. He had served as President from 1977 to 1981 after losing a bid for the White House in 1978 to Ronald Reagan. He had also served as Secretary…

  • America needs more Jimmy Carters

    America needs more Jimmy Carters

    Former US President Jimmy Carter in his 2001 memoir, ‘An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood’, said he “always found a way to bring up” issues at home when he thought it might help. “I usually found a way to bring up these issues…when I thought it might help,” he added. Carter was…

  • The cautionary tale is about the story of White House trophy terms

    Donald Trump is the first US President in over a century to seek a second term. He’s also the first President since Grover Cleveland to get a second shot at a first term. Notably, former presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy were the…

  • Jimmy Carter is a White evangelical Christian who stuck to the road not taken

    Jimmy Carter is a White evangelical Christian who stuck to the road not taken

    A White classmate of former US President Jimmy Carter at the US Naval Academy assigned to him after World War II called him “Goddamn n***er lover”. Carter befriended a Black midshipman who was assigned to Carter right after World War II. “Carter had no problem being identified as a progressive evangelical,” author Randall Balmer, who…

  • Carter’s legacy is centered on near-eradication of a disease

    Former US President Jimmy Carter’s efforts have helped eliminate Guinea worm disease in 17 countries and averted at least 8 crore cases among the “world’s poorest and most neglected people”, the Carter Centre said. There were only 13 cases of the disease recorded by the centre in 2015, it added. The disease is spread through…

  • Jimmy Carter will enter Hospice care and his church wants comfort for him and his family

    Former US President Jimmy Carter, who turns 98 on Monday, is receiving hospice care in his home. “They are at peace and as always, their home is full of love,” said Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter. The former president is being treated for cancer that originated in his liver and spreads to his brain.

  • Jimmy Carter is going to get home hospice care

    Former US President Jimmy Carter, who was diagnosed with cancer in December, will be treated at a hospice facility, his grandson Jason Carter said on Monday. “They are at peace and…their home is full of love,” he added. The 90-year-old had served as the first African-American President of the US from 1977 to 1981.