Former President Jimmy Carter was eulogized by Steve Ford, the son of late President Gerald Ford, who shared a close friendship with Carter despite their political rivalry.

Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford faced off in 1976 in a bitter campaign but later bonded as few presidents have — and made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals.

Solomon Jones on the shift in America's cultural values marked by the death of the 39th president and the criminal sentencing of the 47th.

After birth certificate conspiracies and years of name-calling, the two former presidents were able to put differences aside.

Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams before him, Carter will mostly be remembered for what came after his time in the White House rather than those four years in it—as he should be.

Other than Johnson, the only presidents who did not make a Supreme Court appointment were William Henry Harrison (who only served 31 days) and Zachary Taylor (who was in office only 16 months). Harrison, not surprisingly, made no federal appointments at all. Taylor made only four, the second fewest in history.

Amid the former presidents, members of Congress, lobbyists, princes and prime ministers at Jimmy Carter’s funeral sat a woman in a wheelchair. Behind her was the ventilator she needs to survive ...

The Panama Canal treaties were approved by a bipartisan coalition of senators who accepted a counterintuitive reality: Giving up the canal was the best way to retain its use.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The second person to eulogize former President Jimmy Carter was ... Ford was president before Carter, having taken office after the impeachment and resignation of Richard ...