(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America, the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and the prime minister ...

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer whose vision of a "competent and compassionate" government propelled him into the White House, died at his home in ...

Democrat Jimmy Carter is sworn in by chief justice Earl Burger as the 39th president of the United States while first lady Rosalynn looks on, Washington DC, January 20, 1977. (Photo by Hulton ...