The former president, who served aboard submarines as a young naval officer, was “in awe” when he learned the capabilities of the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington ...
National Archives Photo As then-Capt. Hyman G. Rickover—acclaimed later as “The Father of the Nuclear Navy”—launched a program that would lead to the creation of nuclear-powered submarines ...
ATLANTA — In a 1952 episode that has taken on legendary status in recent years, Jimmy Carter -- then a young Naval lieutenant -- helped play a leading role in cleanup efforts at the world's ...
Mr. Carter was a former president for more than four decades — longer than anyone else in history — and he was only the second to live to 94, after George H.W. Bush, who died in 2018.