At Thursday’s national funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral, Steve Ford delivered a touching eulogy prepared years ago by his father, former President Gerald Ford, who died in 2006. Carter defeated Ford in ...

The late President Gerald Ford commemorated his friend and fellow President Jimmy Carter in a touching eulogy that was read at Carter’s funeral Thursday by Ford’s son.

A. January 1981 was a good time to be a Republican. Ronald Reagan was about to become president after defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter in November, and the GOP controlled the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1955. The new majority leader in that chamber was Tennessee's Howard Baker, a McCallie School graduate and avid Krystal fan.

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Jimmy Carter took the oath of office as the 39th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 1977. I had been a legal adult for four months.

As Carter’s fundamental decency, intelligence, devotion to faith, commitment to public service at home and abroad, and generosity of spirit were celebrated by the eulogists, Trump was the elephant in the room.

"By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals, but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams

Mourners including all five living U.S. presidents attended the late President Jimmy Carter's funeral Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral, the first time they have all been in public together since 2018,

President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald Trump, former presidents and other dignitaries came together Thursday to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter at a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral was a somber time of remembrance, but also a celebration of a century of life, well-lived.

The nation's 39th president is buried alongside his late wife in the same town where they were born, lived most of their lives and died.

Carter, at 100 the nation’s longest living president, died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains. The scene this week in Washington, at the National Cathedral Thursday and as he was lying in state for three days at the Capitol, was unlike anything the country had seen in years.