The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his concerns about how intertwined politics and religion had become. Carter died on Dec. 29 at age 100.

President Jimmy Carter, the first politician to get me excited about politics, was a good man and a great man. His personal ...

A Wyoming man remembers the time in 1981 when he guided Jimmy Carter on a fishing vacation to the U.S. Virgin Islands. The ...

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