Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford may have started as political rivals, but they formed a tight bond behind the scenes, a former White House staffer tells PEOPLE. Their connection would span dec ...

Nixon — Mr. Ford as the vice president who succeeded Mr. Nixon when he resigned in 1974, and Mr. Carter as the Democrat who rode public outrage at the Watergate scandal to victory in 1976.

"They flew over together," says Carter historian Douglas Brinkley. "And Nixon had to break the ice. There was frostiness between Ford and Carter. And it was Richard Nixon who was the jovial one ...

Ford, who had offered a preemptive pardon to former president Richard M. Nixon after Nixon resigned, was defeated by Carter, who had pledged to restore integrity to the White House after the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The second person to eulogize former President Jimmy Carter was Steve Ford, the son of late President Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford was president before Carter, having taken ...

Carter’s big break came in Florida on March 9, 1976, when he soundly defeated segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in a ...

"President Reagan makes available the plane to go over to carry Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - three former presidents, all of whom had worked on Middle Eastern peace," Whitney said.

Carter rose from relative obscurity—he served just one term as Georgia governor and four years in the Georgia state Senate—to ...

From left are President George H.W. Bush and former Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Richard Nixon. “This is probably one of my better-known photographs,” Kennerly said. “It's the first ...