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Sputnik International
April 25, 2018
“They're both apparently kind of brash people who speak off the cuff without careful consideration or without adequate advice from their own responsible associates,” Jimmy Carter noted. James Earl Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He has remained active inÃÂ ...
World Israel News
April 25, 2018
An organization founded by former US President Jimmy Carter and “known for its anti-Israel views” was slammed with a lawsuit involving a number of serious allegations. By: TPS. The Carter Center, an NGO founded by former United States President Jimmy Carter, received over $30 million from USAID byÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 24, 2018
In your new book, “Faith: A Journey for All,” you write that despite believing you had only weeks to live following a cancer diagnosis in 2015, you had no fear of dying. Do you believe in an afterlife? Yes. I'm perfectly willing to leave it up to God. I didn't have anything to do with when I was born or who myÃÂ ...
Chron.com
April 22, 2018
In his 32nd book, titled simply “Faith,” Jimmy Carter looks at how belief in God and others has shaped his 93 years. “To me, 'faith' is not just a noun but also a verb,” the former president writes in his latest — and possibly last — book. Carter talked about his new book with Religion News Service, and why heÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
When President Carter, now 93, announced that he was cutting back on his teaching schedule at the church and publishing a new book — “Faith: A Journey for All” — it seemed almost like a sign. Jimmy Carter still has faith in this country, and I hoped his Sunday school lesson might restore my faith, too.
PRI
April 11, 2018
President Jimmy Carter: Well, his sustained popularity among evangelicals has. I think some of that popularity or trust has been shaken lately by the allegations about extramarital affairs and things of that kind. But I think every evangelical is searching for a proper relationship with God and with peopleÃÂ ...
America Magazine
April 11, 2018
But if Graham is either the foil or forefather of current evangelical politics, then Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is the road not taken. Today it may seem inevitable that evangelicals gravitated to the Republican Party in the 1980s; but Carter, the wealthy peanut farmer from Georgia whoÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
March 28, 2018
Former President Jimmy Carter says the power wielded by people who give a lot of money to political candidates has resulted in a “vast disparity in income in America” and that that has ... President Carter, there's such a high level of polarization in this country right now, and you write about it in the book.
Heavy.com
March 2, 2018
Former President Jimmy Carter will not be attending Billy Graham's funeral on Friday, March 2. Every living President has received an invitation, but it appears that President Donald Trump is the only one who has accepted. However, many former U.S. Presidents have needed to turn down the invitation forÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
February 22, 2018
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter will deliver the keynote address at Liberty University's commencement in May. The university has previously hosted two other U.S. presidents for commencement, both while still in office. George H.W. Bush spot at the 1990 graduation, whileÃÂ ...
WSB Atlanta
February 21, 2018
Former President Jimmy Carter issued a statement Wednesday saying he was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Evangelist Billy Graham. ... He met with President Carter many times, including when he and his wife, Ruth, visited the Carters at the White House, 11/1/79. pic.twitter.com/VICoudF6YE.
WALB-TV
February 19, 2018
"President Carter is a major influence to our faith. I think most people think of him as a politician, former president, former governor, but more than that he's been an inspiration significantly in both my faith walk and my family's faith walk," explained Hudson. At the end of Carter's presentation, students wereÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
February 19, 2018
Jimmy Carter said Monday he was “deathly afraid” during what he described as the “very serious” operation his wife underwent this past weekend. Rosalynn Carter, 90, had surgery to remove “troubling scar tissue” from a portion of her small intestine, according to a statement the Carter Center releasedÃÂ ...
Parade
February 16, 2018
In August 2015, Jimmy Carter thought that he had just two or three weeks to live after being diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to his liver and brain. ... During his tenure as president, Carter was able to “keep the peace and to promote human rights,” including brokering the Camp David Accords,ÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
February 11, 2018
President Carter at a meeting with New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne, right, at the White House in 1977. (Charles Bennett / Associated Press). To the editor: Matt Welch fails to make the crucial distinction between unnecessary regulations that stifle competition, and necessary regulations that are meant toÃÂ ...
Reason
February 9, 2018
Such a jaundiced definition of the term, routine though it may be on the contemporary left, would be unrecognizable to leading Democratic politicians of the late 1970s, including the president who jump-started the modern notion of deregulation: Jimmy Carter. Reclaiming that lost history may soon proveÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 31, 1999
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter will not be at Barbara Bush's funeral Saturday. “President and Mrs. Carter regret that they are unable to attend,” the Carter Center in Atlanta said in a statement Thursday morning. “President Carter will be on a private trip overseas, and although she is recovering, Mrs. Carter isÃÂ ...
Charlotte Observer
December 31, 1999
Former President Jimmy Carter, who came to Charlotte a decade ago for the opening of the Billy Graham Library, will not be returning this week for Graham's funeral or viewing. In an email, a ... Jimmy Carter, 93, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was “deathly afraid” during his wife's operation.
Los Angeles Times
February 12, 2018
President Carter at a meeting with New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne, right, at the White House in 1977. (Charles Bennett / Associated Press). To the editor: Matt Welch fails to make the crucial distinction between unnecessary regulations that stifle competition, and necessary regulations that are meant toÃÂ ...
Bend Bulletin
February 11, 2018
Plains is a paean to the 39th president: Visitors can tour Carter's childhood farm, see the old train depot that he used as a campaign headquarters and stop by his high school, which is now the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site's museum and visitor center. In a convenience store parking lot, there's even aÃÂ ...
Reason
February 9, 2018
Such a jaundiced definition of the term, routine though it may be on the contemporary left, would be unrecognizable to leading Democratic politicians of the late 1970s, including the president who jump-started the modern notion of deregulation: Jimmy Carter. Reclaiming that lost history may soon proveÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
February 8, 2018
The president tried to use the 1980 Summer Olympics to get Russia out of Afghanistan. It didn't work. By John Dickerson. 160224_POD_Whistlestop-1180px. The U.S. team boycotted the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 in response to the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. On the eve of theÃÂ ...
The Star
February 7, 2018
3-4, for a weekend in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. Traveling with Kantz's daughter, Anderson resident Liesel K. Anderson, they visited the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. They also explored the former chief executive's boyhood home, and had their pictureÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
February 7, 2018
Gwinnett Commissioners recently approved a request for a special use permit that will allow an auto sales and related service business in the 4600 block of Jimmy Carter Boulevard north of the road's intersection with Britt Road and Williams Road in unincorporated Norcross. Attorney Brian JenabzadehÃÂ ...
WABE 90.1 FM
January 22, 2018
Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday School class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in 2015. The Carter Center says ... Former President Jimmy Carter is scaling back his Sunday teaching schedule at his hometown church in Plains, Georgia. Like us on Facebook.
Politico
January 21, 2018
On this day in 1977, President Jimmy Carter, in his first full day in office, fulfilled a campaign promise by granting unconditional pardons to hundreds of thousands of men who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by fleeing the country or by failing to register with their Selective Service boards.
Crestview News Bulletin
January 20, 2018
ATLANTA — In 1970, Canadian Neil Young told “Southern Man” to “keep your head, don't forget what your Good Book said,” and some Southern men took offense. Jacksonville, Florida, rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd responded, in “Sweet Home Alabama,” that “I hope Neil Young will remember a southern manÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 19, 2018
Stansfield A. Turner, who served as CIA director under President Jimmy Carter, has died at age 94, The Associated Press reported. President Carter on Thursday praised Turner for his reforms at the CIA. “Rosalynn and I join countless Americans in mourning the loss of a truly great man,” Carter said in aÃÂ ...
The Intelligencer
January 18, 2018
Atlanta — In 1970, Canadian Neil Young told “Southern Man” to “keep your head, don't forget what your Good Book said,” and some Southern men took offense. Jacksonville, Florida, rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd responded, in “Sweet Home Alabama,” that “I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don'tÃÂ ...
The Providence Journal
January 18, 2018
Atlanta — In 1970, Canadian Neil Young told “Southern Man” to “keep your head, don't forget what your Good Book said,” and some Southern men took offense. Jacksonville, Florida, rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd responded, in “Sweet Home Alabama,” that “I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don'tÃÂ ...
Tribune-Review
January 17, 2018
8, 2017, photo, former President Jimmy Carter speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony for a solar panel project on farmland he owns in his hometown of Plains, Ga. Carter is working on a book about his religious faith. Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, that Carter's “Faith: A JourneyÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
January 11, 2018
Artist Russ Filbeck has his hand on a casting of his own hand pulling a drawknife tool, shared with a casting of former President Jimmy Carter's hand, at left. The hands ... He said he is excited about the President Carter sculpture because it should be a draw that will get even more people to visit the show.
iMediaEthics
January 7, 2018
Fox News wrongly reported that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died. The error came in a Nov. 26, 2017 article headlined, “George H. W. Bush now longest living president.” The article now carries the following correction. “CORRECTION: This article previously incorrectly stated that former PresidentÃÂ ...
Politico
January 1, 2018
On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter asked the Senate to postpone action on a Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union, which was aimed at curbing nuclear weapons deployment by the world's rival superpowers. The president acted in response to the Soviet invasion ofÃÂ ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 28, 2017
Gwinnett Commissioners recently denied a request by Brian Jenabzadeh for a special use permit that would have allowed auto sales and related services on 1.1 acres in the 4600 block of Jimmy Carter Boulevard north of the road's intersection with Britt Road and Williams Road in unincorporated Norcross.
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 27, 2017
“I'm not going to sit here and dissuade you from your views,” Hayden said, before refusing to comment on Jimmy Carter's mission. Two years later, the Journal again reported that the submarine's role suggested an undersea spook, citing “people knowledgeable about it.” After more than a decade ofÃÂ ...
Rapid City Journal
December 20, 2017
Cancer, black spray paint no match for Jimmy Carter ... The statue of President Jimmy Carter can be found at the intersection of Sixth and St. Joseph streets. Journal file ... Much like the 93-year-old former president, the bronze likeness of Jimmy Carter in downtown Rapid City has proven to be quite resilient.
Sacramento Bee
December 19, 2017
Nearing his first major legislative achievement, President Donald Trump's disapproval remains high across California, according to a new poll. UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies found that 66 percent of the state's registered voters disapprove of the Republican's performance. That disapprovalÃÂ ...
Kotatv
December 19, 2017
Using black spray paint, half the face of Jimmy Carter was covered. The statue can be found on the street corner of St. Joseph Street and Sixth Avenue. The graffiti was spotted this morning and Dallerie Davis, co-founder of the City of Presidents Foundation, believes that this was not a hate crime. As for theÃÂ ...
Rocky Mount Telegram
December 31, 1999
Plains is a paean to the 39th president: Visitors can tour Carter's childhood farm, see the old train depot that he used as a campaign headquarters and stop by his high school, which is now the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site's museum and visitor center. In a convenience store parking lot, there's even aÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Plymouth
December 31, 1999
In 1970, Canadian Neil Young told “Southern Man” to “keep your head, don't forget what your Good Book said,” and some Southern men took offense. Jacksonville rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd responded, in “Sweet Home Alabama,” that “I hope Neil Young will remember a Southern man don't need him around.
Waxahachie Daily Light
December 31, 1999
Atlanta — In 1970, Canadian Neil Young told “Southern Man” to “keep your head, don't forget what your Good Book said,” and some Southern men took offense. Jacksonville, Florida, rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd responded, in “Sweet Home Alabama,” that “I hope Neil Young will remember a southern man don'tÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
Why Jimmy Carter should be Trump's messenger of peace on North Korea. Chi Wang says it is clear that increased sanctions and harsher rhetoric will only make the North Korean regime dig in its heels. Instead of demanding denuclearisation, the US ought to try an indirect approach, led by formerÃÂ ...
Valdosta Daily Times
December 28, 2017
President Carter handcrafted the sanctuary's cross and the church's handsome offering plates. Jimmy Carter frequently teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist and individuals wishing to attend the 10 a.m. class should arrive early to claim a seat in the 350-seat sanctuary. On busy weekends, thisÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
December 28, 2017
“I'm not going to sit here and dissuade you from your views,” Hayden said, before refusing to comment on Jimmy Carter's mission. Two years later, the Journal again reported that the submarine's role suggested an undersea spook, citing “people knowledgeable about it.” After more than a decade ofÃÂ ...
Rapid City Journal
December 20, 2017
Cancer, black spray paint no match for Jimmy Carter ... The statue of President Jimmy Carter can be found at the intersection of Sixth and St. Joseph streets. Journal file ... Much like the 93-year-old former president, the bronze likeness of Jimmy Carter in downtown Rapid City has proven to be quite resilient.
Kotatv
December 19, 2017
Jimmy Carter statue vandalized. Error loading player: No playable sources found. By Jill Langland |. Posted: Tue 3:07 PM, Dec 19, 2017 |. Updated: Tue 6:30 PM, Dec 19, 2017. RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA TV) - Vandals have spray painted the Jimmy Carter statue in downtown Rapid City. Using black spray paint, half the faceÃÂ ...
WALB-TV
December 9, 2017
Students will soon get new educational experiences at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains. (Source: WALB). The national park's education leaders have recently re-worked their field trip activities. (Source: WALB). "It's their classroom away from their school building," said Marle Usry, the park's ...
KUNM
December 6, 2017
... Children's Hour featured kids from Jimmy Carter Middle School's Junior National Honors Society who educated us all about their school's namesake: our 39th president, Nobel Prize winning humanitarian, Jimmy Carter. From the peanut farm to the White House, there's a lot to know about President CarterÃÂ ...
Hickory Daily Record
December 6, 2017
Kathy Carter is running for president of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Carter's announcement comes a day after the current president, Sunil Gulati, said he wouldn't seek a fourth term. The 48-year-old Carter is currently the president of Major League Soccer's marketing subsidiary, Soccer United Marketing.
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