Jimmy Carter wins posthumous Grammy for best audiobook
- 03-Feb-2025
Late US president Jimmy Carter, on Sunday, won a posthumous Grammy Award – his fourth – for best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for a collection of his final Sunday school lessons in Georgia. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu- Click Here On ‘Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration’, Jimmy Carter – who died […]
Jimmy Carter funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral on Jan 9
- 31-Dec-2024
A state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the former US president who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, according to the US Army. US President Joe Biden, who last year said that Jimmy Carter had asked him to deliver the eulogy at his […]
Jimmy Carter, former US president, dead at 100
- 30-Dec-2024
Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday. He was 100. Carter, a Democrat, became […]
The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
- 11-Nov-2023
This book “The Outlier” by Kai Bird is an excellent and interesting and searching biography of a president whose contributions are undervalued. Though Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) has been perceived as a weak or hapless executive, that view, writes Pulitzer winner author, is “a simplistic caricature.” Carter’s single term in office was “consequential.” Bracketed between […]
Former presidents take stage at hurricane benefit concert
- 22-Oct-2017
ATLANTA: All five of America’s living former presidents took the stage Saturday at a benefit concert in Texas to raise money for victims of the hurricane-ravaged southern United States and Caribbean. Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter appeared together onstage at Texas A&M , praising Americans […]
Brzezinski, ex-aide to former US President Carter, dies at 89
- 27-May-2017
WASHINGTON: Zbigniew Brzezinski, a hawkish Cold War strategist and former top aide to US president Jimmy Carter, has died at 89, his family said on Friday. “My father passed away peacefully tonight,” MSNBC journalist Mika Brzezinski said on Instagram. “He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his […]
White House movie theater opens to public
- 13-May-2017
WASHINGTON: Visitors to the White House can now visit the cloakroom-turned-movie theater where Dwight Eisenhower used to sneak off to watch westerns and where Jimmy Carter screened “All The President’s Men.” The decision to open up the private presidential theater — set up in a large cloakroom by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942 — was […]
A look at US and Saudi Arabia relations as King Abdullah departs
- 24-Jan-2015
WASHINGTON: Long-standing ties between the United States, the world's oldest democracy, and Saudi Arabia, an ultra-conservative absolute monarchy, have strained at times, but the unlikely allies remain bound by mutual interests in regional stability and oil.