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10/12/2026

Remembering former President Jimmy Carter. Thanks for your comments.

Statesman Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) by James Patterson As an Alabamian raised on the Georgia border, my family attended some of Jimmy Carter’s 1966 and 1970 campaign events in Columbus. As an undergraduate at Auburn University in 1975, I saw excitement on my classmates' faces as Carter campaigned f...

09/19/2026

On Sept. 19, 2022, Great Britain and the world said a final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds who thronged the streets of London.

09/08/2026

On September 9, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, died in Scotland at age 96.

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09/07/2026

On September 7, 1977, the Panama Canal Treaty, which called for the U.S. to turn over control of the waterway to Panama at the end of 1999, was signed in Washington by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.

09/05/2026

On September 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter hosted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David, Md., for Middle East peace talks that laid the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. The summit resulted in the Camp David Accords, which earned Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize.

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09/01/2026

On September 1, 1991, U.S. President George H.W. Bush established diplomatic relations with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

08/26/2026

On August 26, 1957, the Soviet Union announced it had successfully developed and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.

In 2026, Russia has an estimated 5,459 warheads in its nuclear arsenal.

08/09/2026

On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office as U.S. president after Richard Nixon’s resignation; in a speech afterward, Ford declared that “our long national nightmare is over.”

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08/07/2026

On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.

"Viewed historically, the American intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s was an incident of gunboat diplomacy writ large; from outside we hoped by superior firepower to shape the domestic polity of an Asian people."

"No informed American can think of Vietnam without shame..." John King Frederick, "The United States and China," Fourth Edition. 1983.

Support Vietnam veterans, their families, and Vietnamese refugees. Thank you.

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Photo: Reflections on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.

"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" W. H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier.

08/03/2026

On August 4, 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the N**i Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam, Netherlands, warehouse. She died less than a year later in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.