The president wanted Jews out of the West Bank. The prime minister went only as far as the Sinai.

Mr. Carter invited Mr. Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to a summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland, and offered to serve as a mediator. It was not Mr. Carter’s first foray into Egyptian-Israeli diplomacy and it would not be his last.

Forging peace between Israel and Egypt required actions more morally nebulous than simple truth-telling and law-obeying from President Carter

Stuart Eizenstat, a policy advisor to former President Jimmy Carter, discusses Carter's achievements and challenges during his presidency.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. His death comes more than a year after the former president entered hospice care.

Former President Carter’s postpresidential life lasted decades, putting his career in the White House in a deep rearview mirror in many ways. Carter died Sunday, according to the Carter

Asked once if his 12-year-old daughter, Amy, ever brags about her father being president, Jimmy Carter said she didn’t. If anything, he added, “she probably apologizes.” It was the summer of 1979, and the election in which Carter would lose in 44 of 50 states was more than a year away,

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Former President Jimmy Carter led the US through a tumultuous time of conflict in the Middle East, gas shortages, Cold War drama and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

After Carter stepped down as president in 1981, he became one of Israel’s most outspoken critics and one of the Palestinians' most vocal supporters.