ATLANTA - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, fresh off of a trip to Nicaragua to monitor preparations for November's elections, plan to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Friday with a quiet day in their Georgia hometown.

Skeptics say there will never be a lasting peace in the Middle East. Former President Jimmy Carter has spent the past three decades trying to prove them wrong. Carter’s latest effort is “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work,” which he will promote Friday during a booksigning at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe.

NEW YORK - Former President Carter, who already has a book coming out this fall about his post-White House years, is working on a memoir about his mother, Lillian, to be published next spring by Simon & Schuster.

JERUSALEM - Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace deal, but he's getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast.

AIRPORT CITY, Israel - Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he hoped to help open talks between Hamas and U.S. leaders, saying Washington's policy of not meeting with people it labeled terrorists was counterproductive.

Looks like we have another Jimmy Carter President in the White House. Barack Hussein Obama has been kissing up to the Muslim world since he became president. Could it be from his Muslim childhood in Indonesia? He hardly had a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” childhood. His parents met at a Russian language class in the 1960s at the University of Hawaii (now who studied Russian back in those days, Marxists maybe?). On one of his first overseas trips as president he meets the King of Saudi Arabia (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques) and gives him a full bow from the waist. No other president has bowed down to any head of state in our history. Then Obama apologizes to the Muslim world for America’s past “transgressions” at the University of Cairo. Yes, Cairo, where our U.S. Embassy was overrun. What does the Obama Administration do? It issues another “apology.” “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts of misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims...”

September 7, 2004

ATHENS, Ga. - Former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that the storm of criticism he has faced for his recent book has not weakened his resolve for fair treatment of Israelis and Palestinians.

Former President Jimmy Carter denounced Israel’s plan to build a fence in Palestinian territories as a land grab rather than a security measure at a Tempe book signing Tuesday, as protesters with ethnic ties to the Middle East conflict squared off outside.

KUWAIT CITY - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group.

May 6, 2005

I realize that picking a president by his or her ability to play sports, or least talk about them, would saddle the country with leaders with such names as Jeter, Pippin or Manning. But my take on the bad run of presidents since Teddy Roosevelt cluttered up the White House with big game is that many modern presidents have had a complicated relationship with the national pastimes. Maybe it was the German strategist Clausewitz who said that sports is the extension of politics by other means?

Poor Jimmy Carter. Such wonderful intentions. Such ghastly naivete.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Top Clinton administration officials, both Presidents Bush, rock stars and ordinary admirers of Bill Clinton turned out Thursday to pay homage to "a man of compassion" at the opening of the Clinton Presidential Center.

At least Romney had binders. Binders full of qualified women to fill cabinet positions, that is. Democrats mercilessly pounded Romney for the binders comment he made during the 2012 presidential campaign, but I’ll bet the Obama campaign now wishes Romney had passed the binders on to Obama since it seems he’s having a hard time picking women to fill his second term cabinet positions.

Don't take a leap of faith in choosing the next president, Hillary Rodham Clinton tells us.

I’ve long admired Jimmy Carter, both as a president and as a citizen.

Gerald Ford was always the accidental president, thrust into the Oval Office with scant preparation at a critical juncture in American history. The contemporary judgments of himself and his presidency were unsparingly harsh.

John McCain stands as the latest challenger to test the time-honored rule of thumb that an Arizonan simply cannot be elected president. Consider the results of presidential candidates Barry Goldwater in 1964, Morris Udall in 1976, Bruce Babbitt in 1988 and McCain himself in 2000.

A simple and deceptively tricky question: What does a president do? If you had to put together the Help Wanted ad for the position of chief executive, what would you write?