Jimmy Carter’s melancholy fate was to be a largely derivative figure: He was a reaction against his elected predecessor and the precursor of his successor. Richard Nixon made Carter tempting ...

Beginning Monday, the Nixon Foundation invites the public to pay tribute to President Jimmy Carter by writing messages in a condolence book at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ...

Gail Richardson, of Placentia, signs a condolence book for former President Jimmy Carter in the lobby of the The Richard Nixon Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

Gail Richardson, of Placentia, signs a condolence book for former President Jimmy Carter in the lobby of the The Richard Nixon Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

One day after former President Jimmy Carter's death, dozens visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to sign a book of condolences for his family.

President Jimmy Carter left the White House with approval ratings worse than Richard Nixon. But in the years that followed, he earned back Americans' adoration as a compassionate, Nobel Peace ...

Carter entered the campaign with a major advantage: Ford was still politically struggling from his controversial decision to pardon disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal.

Elected in 1976 in the aftermath of Watergate and Gerald Ford's controversial pardon of Richard Nixon, Carter believed he had a responsibility to restore Americans' faith in the integrity of their ...

Former President Jimmy Carter dies at 100 | Special Report 04:06. Elected in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, the former governor of ...

Sen. Robert Griffin (left), a staunch Michigan Republican whose withdrawal of support hastened Richard Nixon's resignation, greets President Jimmy Carter in Flint, Michigan in 1978. | Dennis Cook/AP ...

Back in 1976, Carter changed the way presidential candidates are nominated and elected. He went on to provide models of what to do – and what not to do.