Carter’s love of tennis came home to Plains in 1977 during his first year in the White House. World Team Tennis staged a match in the small Georgia town, which was attended by Carter’s mother ...

His micromanagement of the White House tennis court drew widespread derision, and his toothy, smiling campaign promise that ...

His micromanagement of the White House tennis court drew widespread derision, and his toothy, smiling campaign promise that he would “never lie” to the country somehow curdled into ...

Former President Jimmy Carter dead at 100 The nation’s 39th president left a long meaningful legacy after a difficult four years in the White House. Former President Jimmy Carter in 2008.

One Sunday morning in the 1970s, Margaret McKenna had been playing tennis when her friends who worked on Capitol Hill invited her over to meet Jimmy Carter, the then-governor of Georgia who was ...

It’s not for nothing that his media guru Gerald Rafshoon once observed, “You know, JC only stands for ‘Jimmy Carter.’” Inside the White House, Carter refused to designate a chief of staff for far too ...

Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 general election by ... speechwriter James Fallows memorably revealed in the Atlantic that Carter personally signed off on who could use the White House tennis court. ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, the God-fearing Georgia peanut farmer who survived a disastrous one-term White House stay to launch a second career as a Nobel Prize-winning advocate for global ...