Kissinger-who also served under Nixon's successor and Carter's predecessor, former President Gerald Ford-was considered the modern archetype of realpolitik thinking, meaning a foreign policy ...
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 ...
Ironically, Carter had initially fiercely opposed letting the Shah into the US, but he was persuaded by Kissinger and other supporters of the Shah that the Iranian monarch was close to death from ...
One of Jimmy Carter’s biggest feats in the Oval Office was the establishment of relations between the U.S. and China, opening ...
Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my ...
But for African Americans, Carter was a study in contrasts. It could be argued that his greatest successes were in Africa. When Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, he made Henry Kissinger his ...
Lynda Carter is the unexpected star of Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. The 73-year-old “Wonder Woman” actress attended the Schiaparelli show on Monday morning with look-alike daughter ...
Read the fine print; Carter was warned hostage-taking would likely result if he let Iran’s ex-monarch come to America. And it did, after David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger lobbied Carter to ...
In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...
He championed human rights in Argentina, preserved Alaska’s wilderness and set the table for peace.