When President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign advisers were planning a key West Coast swing through Washington, Oregon and California in mid-September 1980, they decided to hold the campaign’s ...

Carter's people in turn elect to take him at that word—for now—and to view his periodic assaults with a certain that's-politics toleration. Hamilton Jordan, master of Carter's 1980 playbook, guesses ...

This Oct. 28, 1980, photo shows President Jimmy Carter (left) and Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan shaking hands after debating in the Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland. Madeline ...

History isn't kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run. For most of the last 40 years, Jimmy Carter's presidency has been widely remembered as an epic failure, the cautionary tale of a ...