Items from his family, the military, his political career and long post-presidency — and two he made himself.

After Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter linked themselves to Habitat for Humanity, it grew and built homes for millions. Now, their cause is a national crisis.

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Jimmy Carter’s relationship with his successors in the Oval Office, both Republicans and fellow Democrats, was generally tense because of his outspokenness. That never mattered to him.

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In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

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We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any other recent president.

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Nicholas Kristof on what the former president’s legacy meant to him — and the world.

We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any other recent president.

What the 39th president did before he got to the White House is as interesting as what came after.

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What the 39th president did before he got to the White House is as interesting as what came after.