Former President Jimmy Carter, center, with some of the Americans who were taken hostage by Iran in 1979. Mr. Carter met with the hostages in West Germany after their release on Jan. 20, 1981.

The seizure of 52 American diplomats as hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran confronted Jimmy Carter with the question of ...

President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. He was handed a gift, cultivated by the hard work of previous presidents and their administrations. That gift was two pillars of stability for U.S. foreign ...

It could just be me, but 2025 is starting to look like 1980. If you’re old enough to remember back that far, my father was campaigning against Jimmy Carter, and ...

Five months’ worth of negotiations to try to free the hostages proved fruitless, so then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter approved a military rescue mission, which would be commanded by U.S. Army ...