"On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump," Johnson said in a statement. "The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter.”
Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.
Carter is why Mandy Powers Norrell, a former four-term state representative who ran for lieutenant governor in 2018, became a Democrat and why she remains a leading blue voice in a red state.
Sound familiar? No, I'm not talking about President Biden and his administration's support of Israel. It's January 1981, President Jimmy Carter is on his way out and the foreign government his administration is supporting is El Salvador's. Since Carter's ...
The flags at the South Carolina statehouse will fly at full-staff from sunrise to sunset Monday in honor of the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
David Lauderdale writes that Jimmy Carter touched a lot of lives, but none quite like South Carolina’s own Jimmy Baker of Okatie.
The service, which lasted roughly two hours, was packed with heartfelt and vivid remembrances that recalled both a powerful president and politician as well as a thoughtful and giving man of faith.
Gov. Henry McMaster has directed that flags atop the South Carolina Capitol and over state buildings be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, pausing a previous
Several Republican Governors have pledged to fly their flags at full-staff, despite President Biden’s former directive.
President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with the crowd after delivering an address at Wait Chapel concerning the Soviet threat, March 17, 1978. To the right of Carter is Fifth District Congressman Steve Neal. More than 50 years after filling out his ballot, Jimmy Walker freely admits it.
(AP) — Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began ... by Sunday morning power had been restored to parts of North Carolina and South Carolina where tens of thousands of customers lost ...
Much attention has focused on the late Jimmy Carter's presidency and long post-presidency. But columnist Quin Hillyer reminds us that in 1976, the little-known Georgia governor's candidacy changed presidential politics forever.