Carter moved to limit aid to some right-wing dictatorships while supporting others, especially in Central America.

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Now, in Central America, where you had insurgencies, these were kind of like a stress test for this new foreign policy, this new moralism that Jimmy Carter represented. And he didn’t at first ...

In symbolism and substance, President Carter displayed an obsessive attention to energy. He famously installed solar panels on the roof of the White House, but more consequentially, he created the ...

On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter invited reporters up to the White House roof for a ceremony to inaugurate the installation of 32 solar water-heating panels. America was in the midst of an ...

getting America on the road to the energy security we enjoy today. The background shows: In 1978, President Jimmy Carter spoke at a Democratic fund-raiser at downtown's Hyatt Regency Hotel.

This was 1986, so Carter had been out of the White House for several years. Yet here he was, shuttling among Central American ... decades earns him the title of America’s greatest former president.