JIMMY CARTER

Sources told CBS News that the classified documents found at Pence's residence included briefings from foreign trips.

Dramas over the mishandling of classified documents at a high level of the U.S. government aren't all new.

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them. As a different sort of show and tell unfolds in Washington over the mishandling of state secrets by the Trump and now Biden administrations, the schoolgirl episode from four decades ago stands as a reminder that other presidents, too, have let secure information spill. The Grade 8 escapade and one known as Debategate both involved the mishandling of classified documents that Democratic President Jimmy Carter used to prepare for a debate with Republican rival Ronald Reagan in Cleveland on Oct. 28, 1980.

Only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported last year. Global eradication efforts are about to enter its most difficult phase, according to officials

The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

The Carter Center said Tuesday that only 13 human cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide last year.

President Jimmy Carter granted an unconditional pardon to men who dodged the military draft during the Vietnam War on this day in history, Jan. 21, 1977.

The menorah is made out of wood that was removed from the building during a Truman-era renovation, and becomes the first Jewish artifact to be added to the White House archives.

Donald Trump pledged to fix U.S. infrastructure as president.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

The Iowa caucuses and their outsize importance have largely been an exercise in myth-making.

The state is too homogeneous and too disorganized to have the first slot on the calendar. But the impact of early contests is overrated.

More than a dozen measures of relative prosperity show this administration has outperformed six of its last seven predecessors.

The Carter Center is training nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia.

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police.

On January 20, 1980, President Jimmy Carter appeared on “Meet the Press” to make a historic announcement. Moderator Bill Monroe asked Carter if he supported sending a U.S. Olympic team to the summer games in Moscow. Carter replied, “No. Neither I nor the American people would support the sending of an American team to Moscow with Soviet invasion troops in Afghanistan.”

Talk about the next presidential election is already underway and that's because American presidential candidates run relatively long campaigns.

Presidential aspirants running for reelection while dreaming of the highest office in the land often face an uncomfortable question: Will they commit to serving a full term — should they win one — when their best moment to take a shot at the White House may come sooner than that.

Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a constant through the past 10 presidencies.

Mr. Duncan was a point man for Carter's energy policies, such as efforts to cut back on imports from Saudi Arabia and OPEC threats.

He also oversaw investigations into a series of scandals that roiled the Carter administration.

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R.

A federal jury in Virginia has heard opening statements in the trial of a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump.

Biden's war on US energy includes misusing Strategic Petroleum Reserve and bullying domestic producers. He makes even Carter years look good by comparison.

Jimmy Carter, the oldest living former U.S. president, celebrated his 98th birthday on Saturday.

Former president Jimmy Carter, who has already lived longer than any other U.S. president, is celebrating his 98th birthday on Saturday.

Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, turned 98 on Saturday.

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 | 'Hostages' docuseries concludes on HBO

There have been moving and respectful tributes to Queen Elizabeth II as sports resumed in Britain following a nationwide shutdown Friday as a mark of respect for the monarch.

Former President Barack Obama told the Harvard men’s basketball team that the sport taught him “it wasn’t just about me.”.

Across the globe, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted reflections on the historic sweep of her reign and how she succeeded in presiding over the end of Britain’s colonial empire and embracing the independence of her former dominions.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

Obama Foundation officials defend the salaries as the natural outgrowth of a blossoming enterprise that aims to attract top talent.

Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

Chef Roland Mesnier spent 25 years as Executive Pastry Chef in the White House. Prior to going to work for former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, he was executive pastry chef at The Homestead for four memorable years. HOT SPRINGS – Renowned and much-admired pastry chef Roland Mesnier, who spent four years

A federal appeals court has lifted a nationwide injunction against President Joe Biden's requirement for federal contractors to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

The former first lady has loved butterflies since childhood.

Rosalynn Carter turns 95 Thursday, and her birthday is being marked with butterflies.

This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.

Climate activists are pressuring President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency, something the White House hasn't done yet.

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.

Democrats are poised to boot Iowa from its traditional lead-off spot in the presidential nominating calendar in 2024.

Walmart, a bellwether for the U.S. labor market, is laying off about 200 corporate employees, a person familiar with the matter said.

Barack Obama’s presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a September ceremony hosted by his former No. 2, President Joe Biden.

In a Fox News interview, Rep. Ro Khanna invoked Gerald Ford's and Jimmy Carter's primary victories in defense of Biden. It's a fraught analogy.

President Joe Biden’s dash through Israel and the occupied West Bank this week is expected to cut across some of the region’s most iconic places.

Even unpopular presidents have lots of influence in their parties, so the odds against forcing this one to step aside in 2024 are high. But it’s not clear how hard he’d have to be pushed.

Biden has been faulted for speeches that do not seem to meet the moment or lack the urgency to compel others to follow. His soothing approach to issues that prompt anger has often failed to soothe.

W. Michael Blumenthal told The New York Times that the president should take "painful steps" to combat inflation.

Right now, says the Department of Energy, solar energy provides about 3 percent of American electricity.

But don’t be fooled: 2022 is its own beast.

Now is the time for gratitude and profound humility about what comes after Roe.

When Joe Biden was running for president, he wasn't shy about calling out dictators and authoritarian leaders.

Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records.

President Joe Biden and three former presidents have paid tribute to late Veterans Administration chief and U.S. senator Max Cleland, who lost limbs while serving in Vietnam.

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States has a “commitment” to help Taiwan militarily if China invades.

John Chuldenko, a grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, is shining a light on the White House record collection, which is outdated. The last records were added in 1980.

President Joe Biden has saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale, traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.

President Joe Biden took the White House press corps' annual gala as an opportunity to make light of the criticism he has faced in his 15 months in office.

President Joe Biden plans to speak at a memorial service in Minnesota on Sunday for former Vice President Walter Mondale, who died last April at age 93.

Native American tribes in Maine gave up some of their rights to the state when they settled their land claims more than 40 years ago.

Tips on coping with soaring prices were everywhere a generation ago. They were mostly useless, a grim omen for those seeking similar guidance today.

In the lead-up to his 90th birthday, civil rights icon Andrew Young delivered a sermon that lamented the war in Ukraine and “rancor” in the world.

In good times or bad, American presidents come to Congress with a diagnosis that hardly differs over the decades.

Nassau County Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to shut down a Long Island mansion with ties to Russia.

New Yorkers stood in solidarity with Ukraine as rallies across the city Saturday.

Most of the former presidents called Russia's attack an assault on democracy and urged national unity.

This is the way the Biden presidency ends — not with a whimper, but a boomflation?

For one 11-year-old American boy, Richard Nixon's trip to China changed almost everything.

Georgia’s Republican-controlled Senate voted Monday to erect a monument to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Clarence Thomas after heated debate and objections from several Black senators, one of whom called Thomas a “hypocrite and a traitor.” The monument would be financed by private donations and would be erected somewhere at the state Capitol if the measure were to receive final passage. Statues honoring people at the state Capitol are generally put up after their deaths.

President Joe Biden's administration has refused to share evidence for national security claims in recent days, and officials have even accused reporters of buying into foreign propaganda.

The number of people infected with Guinea worm dropped to just over a dozen worldwide last year as health workers try to eradicate the disease.

Prince Andrew, long accused of living beyond his royal means, faces the prospect of multimillion-dollar legal bills in a sexual abuse lawsuit.

Public opinion was unusually static across the last two presidencies. It’s a good thing if that’s starting to change.

As America’s first second gentleman, Doug Emhoff has visited 31 states to promote Biden administration policies and the coronavirus vaccine.

Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died.

President Joe Biden, whose Democratic party controls both chambers of Congress, was invited to give the annual State of the Union address in March.

"Americans must set aside differences and work together before it is too late," the 97-year-old former president wrote in an op-ed.

He listed five demands that Americans should demand of political leaders to "uphold the ideals of freedom and adhere to high standards of conduct."

Sarah Weddington is being remembered this week as a champion of feminism whose work impacted the nation’s politics as views shifted on abortion.

The self-styled “rogue warrior” was the first commander of Navy SEAL Team 6, an elite unit whose legend he fueled as the best-selling author of books drawn from his derring-do.

Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who at 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v.

Mario Tama/GettyThe problem with being a president who promises to clean things up after a villainous predecessor is that the press corps treats you like a superhero—which sounds like a good thing until you realize that just means you get blamed for things you can’t control.That’s what happened to Jimmy Carter, and it’s what’s happening to Joe Biden now thanks to what Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhad has called “the Green Lantern Theory” in which voters believe a president can do anyt

Bob Dole's political career began in 1950 with election to the Kansas Legislature.

To counter China, the United States’ approach to its relationship with the Philippines invokes déjà vu.

As mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu oversaw billions of dollars in infrastructure repairs and improvements when he took over a lagging recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2010.

One of the lessons from inflationary eras past is that voters are less interested in causal responsibility than in forcing a change. In other words, if you are in office now, you are holding the bag.

In the days leading up to Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, families in Pomuch, Mexico, take their deceased relatives' skeletons out of their tombs for their annual cleaning. The ritual is said to originate with the Mayans, and today, only Catholics here practice it. The pandemic has kept people away from the cemetery for the past two years, and younger generations are unlikely to carry on the tradition for much longer.

Thousands of Iranians have gathered on the streets of Tehran for the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

World premiere run of Eduardo Machado’s play about Celia Sánchez and Castro was shut down immediately after opening night at the start of pandemic.

The oldest former U.S. president ever, Jimmy Carter, plans to quietly mark his 97th birthday at home in Georgia on Friday.

Annette Davis Carter, who campaigned for father-in-law Jimmy Carter during his successful bid for the White House in 1976 and spent nearly 50 years in Georgia's Carter clan, has died. Carter's son Josh Carter wrote an online obituary for his mother that was shared by the former president's church in Plains, on Wednesday. Annette Davis met Jeff Carter at Georgia Southwestern State University and the two married in April 1975, Josh Carter wrote.

The best time to plant a solar panel was forty years ago—but Biden is trying hard to make up for lost time.

Singer-songwriter Tom T.

Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.

President Joe Biden has nominated Mark Brzezinski to serve as his ambassador to Poland.

Comcast is among four corporations that raised alarm about voting restrictions but donated to Georgia politicians who supported the state’s legislation.