Like many in our country, I was captivated by the tributes and memorials for former President Jimmy Carter following his death after a century of life and over 75 years ...

Leaders at SMU joined the chorus of tributes to the 39th president as the nation mourned the passing of the United States’ ...

I watched President Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral. It made an impression on me, generating a lot of thoughts and reflections. The first stunning impression was that ...

What do George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have in common? Each would have made a ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among ... Andrew Johnson pardoned all Southerners who had been involved in the Civil War in 1868. Jimmy Carter pardoned every Vietnam War draft ...

Nine children of presidents have gotten married at the White House: Maria Hester Monroe, John Adams II, Elizabeth Tyler, ...

The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As ...

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy ...

The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show ...

It was St. Patrick's Day in 1976, and President Gerald Ford wanted ... 1976 presidential election to Jimmy Carter and left Washington, D.C. Barrett worked with Ford for the next five years and ...