Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

Many people are remembering former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, after more than a year in hospice care. He was a Georgia peanut farmer who sought to restore trust in ...

Political cartoonists had a field day drawing Jimmy Carter. The image of Carter during his 1976 campaign included caricatures of a rural Southerner and that giant smile.

Into this milieu, candidate Jimmy Carter announced that he was a "born-again Christian" (a concept that many American moderns were learning of, no doubt, for the first time).

How Jimmy Carter created the Iowa Caucus playbook that catapulted him to the White House From 'Jimmy who?' to Mr. President: The Georgia peanut farmer cemented his place in Iowa history by showing ...

Jimmy Carter was considered a long-shot presidential candidate in the 1976 Democratic primary, but his shrewd campaign strategy won him the nomination.© Getty Images ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That's the problem.