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 ...

Operation Eagle Claw, sometimes called Desert One, was doomed almost as soon as it started. Several of the rescue helicopters encountered a fierce sandstorm, and one of them collided with an ...

Behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings by the Reagan campaign and Team Trump clinched deals in the eleventh hour, showing Jimmy ...

America made its history as the first Black person, Barack Obama, was sworn in as the 44th president of the country. In front ...

Jimmy Carter was not your stereotypical politician. He was a deeply religious man and more of a moral leader than a political one. I had the good fortune to interview him on three occasions and to ...

One attempt - Operation Eagle Claw - had been disastrously bungled, leaving eight servicemen dead and the President humiliated. So no one was surprised when, a few months' later, the Republican ...

was one profound failure—a special operation dubbed Operation Eagle Claw. Bringing the Hostages Home In November 1979, a group of Iranian college students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and ...

One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

They understand that they cannot improve Iran’s excruciating press freedom record overnight, and they also realize that the odds of an Operation Eagle Claw succeeding in bringing hostages home ...