Looking on, from left, are: outgoing President Gerald Ford, and at right, Vice President Walter Mondale, and former ... Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a ...

Carter — the longest-living president in US history — was sworn in on January 20, 1977 after defeating Republican Gerald Ford ...

Mr. Carter was a one-term president who faced economic and geopolitical headwinds, yet he built a legacy as one of the ...

Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became a U.S. president and a Nobel Prize-winning activist for peace and human ...

On this week's episode of Close Up, we look at Jimmy Carter's impact across the globe — and here in Iowa.

With typical attention to detail, he spread a map of Alaska on the Oval Office rug and on his ... and his Russia ...

Once in office, Carter empowered his running mate, Walter Mondale, to transform the vice ... presidency took the oath of office — Ronald Reagan. Before the 1980 election between Carter, Reagan ...

Four years later, he was re-elected, defeating Walter Mondale, carrying 525 electoral votes. Reagan captured every state except Minnesota, Mondale’s home state. In the decade of the ’80s ...

Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 election. Walter Mondale was vice president during Jimmy Carter's term in office. Mondale later ran against and lost to President Ronald Regan when Regan ...