Historian Douglas Brinkley said Carter "raised the bar" on what was expected of presidents after leaving the White House and living a life of service.

Carter was busy building his post-White House Carter Center, a nonpartisan human rights organization, and he was still a pariah for Democrats after losing to Republican Ronald Reagan in a landslide.

Many people have been visiting the Carter Center to honor former President Jimmy Carter. Hope Dlugozima, a former White House intern during Carter's presidency, recalls her unique experiences ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National ...

From 2006: Jimmy Carter on life after the White House (Video) And no wonder. He and Rosalynn (who died in 2023) founded the Carter Center to promote democracy and improve healthcare around the world.

via REUTERS After leaving the White House, Carter turned his attention ... which developed housing for the poor, and the Carter Presidential Center to promote human rights. Carter was awarded ...

Carter hosted then-Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe at the White House soon after his country ... out to be the kind of scenario that the Carter Center has long sought to prevent by deploying ...

White House chief of staff Dick Cheney looks at ... Carter is interviewed at the Carter Center in Atlanta in September 2011. Carter and Ford’s relationship grew over the years as they ...

Once he opened the Carter Center in the early 1980s ... "I think the other people who left the White House after he did felt an obligation to engage in some public service activities," Strong ...

Carter was busy building his post-White House Carter Center, a nonpartisan human rights organization, and he was still a pariah for Democrats after losing to Republican Ronald Reagan in a landslide.