Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and derailed many Carter initiatives.

A state funeral for the 39th president on Thursday will bring together all five living presidents and feature a eulogy from President Biden.

Perhaps more than any single post-World War II president, Carter changed the way many saw the U.S. by attempting to inject American values of altruism, democracy and human rights into foreign policy.

The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of the military and conservative politicians.

The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.

The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the Middle East.

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at afterward and feel that he had a plan, and would be decisive, and has a shot at carrying out.

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

THE funeral of late President Jimmy Carter is underway at the Washington National Cathedral as every living and current commander-in-chief gathered to pay their respects. The first two rows of the

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, after more than a year in hospice care.

A state funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter took place at the Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital on Thursday, in a highlight of a solemn send-off process to honor the nation's 39th president who passed away late last month.