BOSTON - Jimmy Carter was little-known nationally when ... an epic showdown between Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and the incumbent that made a big impact on national and local politics.

Books by Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy sit side by side on the author’s bookshelf. (Photo Peter Lucas) “A great democracy practices what it preaches,” he said. When the Senate approved a key ...

Jimmy Carter told his son he already had. Despite what Patrick Kennedy called their “huge mega-clash,” Carter attended Ted Kennedy’s 2009 funeral. Patrick Kennedy said he believed Carter ...

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 ...

When former President Jimmy Carter died at home in Plains ... fending off a Democratic primary challenge from Sen. Ted Kennedy while also campaigning against Republican opponent Ronald Reagan ...

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who in the Democratic ... (The New Republic labeled it “The Jimmy Carter Desert Classic.”) But, particularly for a Democrat, Carter was notably pro-defense.