Eizenstat served as chief domestic policy advisor in the Carter administration and was the most senior Jewish official in the Carter White House
Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. The title was Jimmy Carter’s idea. Peace talks were nonexistent, Israel showed no sign of ending its control over the lives of millions of Palestinians ...
Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.
Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.
As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.
Jewish groups are mourning Jimmy Carter, the former president and broker of Israel’s peace deal with Egypt who died Dec. 29 at 100.
Former Post correspondent Glenn Frankel attended the 2002 ceremony in Norway at which Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Former US President Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived president in American history, has died at the age of 100.
Harris highlighted Carter’s accomplishments during his time in office, including his appointment of more Black judges to the federal bench “than all of his predecessors combined” and the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.
Former White House aide Stu Eizenstat used his eulogy to make an effort to reframe the Carter presidency as more successful than voters appreciated at the time. “He may not be a candidate for Mount Rushmore,
"Jimmy Carter’s legacy is best measured in lives ... "His significant role in achieving the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will remain etched in the annals of history, and his ...