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Jimmy Carter
The Man Who Invented the Government Shutdown
How Jimmy Carter’s attorney general changed congressional budget showdowns forever
A Brief History of U.S. Presidents and the Olympics
Mitt Romney is not the only politician with an Olympic past. From Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the biennial games have been a fixture in politics. As the 2012 Summer Olympics kick off in London, TIME looks back at how …
Happy Birthday to America—and her First Daughters
President Obama isn’t just celebrating the birth of the nation on July 4, he’s celebrating the birth of his daughter Malia, who is turning 14. In honor of both milestones, TIME looks back through the years at other First …
Tom Donilon, Serving Democratic Presidents For 30 Years
From President Jimmy Carter’s diary, Monday, August 11, 1980:
Monday evening the convention began. There were heated debates on the rules question. When the vote came we did better than we had anticipated, getting 1,935 votes–about a 700+ vote margin over Kennedy. He called me shortly afterward to say he was going to withdraw his name
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In the ArenaUncategorized
Obama as Jeffersonian Carterite? Hmmm.
Walter Russell Mead, usually a very fine foreign policy thinker, has a piece in the new issue of Foreign Policy that sort of compares Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter…and to Thomas Jefferson in his attitudes about America’s place in the world. I don’t find it very convincing. Here’s Mead’s definition of a Jeffersonian foreign
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