President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan debated just once in the contest of 1980. By Bret Schulte | Jan. 17, 2008. By Bret Schulte | Jan. 17, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. Save. More. The Actor and the ...

Numerous setbacks, both domestic and international, contributed to President Jimmy Carter's 1980 defeat at the hands of GOP challenger Ronald Reagan, making Carter a one-term president ...

How Jimmy Carter lost his second term to Ronald Reagan. A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades.

President Jimmy Carter, left, and Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan shake hands after their debate in Cleveland on Oct. 28, 1980.

The titanic political contest in 1980 between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is well known. It was a struggle between two very different men with two very different views of America and the world.

Jimmy Carter, the incumbent Democratic president of the United States, was there. Ronald Reagan, the former California governor and Hollywood actor who had all but won the GOP presidential ...

Gergen was 83 years old. His son, Christopher, told The New York Times on Friday that Gergen's death was caused by Lewy body dementia. Gergen first began working at the White House in 1971, ...

The Washington D.C. insider, who is most known for his role in getting former President Ronald Reagan elected over a second ...

Jimmy Carter got it right: Race, Ronald Reagan, ... grappling with his 1976 candidacy and presidency for most of my workdays for at least a year now for my next book on Ronald Reagan’s rise to ...

Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide despite trailing Jimmy Carter in public opinion polls two weeks earlier, so polls cannot be trusted to predict election results.

In 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. ... President Ronald Reagan, did not share Carter's passion and had them removed during repairs to the roof.

As Biello noted, after Reagan took down the panels in 1986, one of the 32 was saved and now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, one is at the Carter Library, and ...