President Trump is eyeing an executive order to dismantle the Education Department, which has placed dozens of staffers on leave in what their union says is a move to encourage resignations.

Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital. Champion of human rights, especially regarding the governments of South Korea, Iran, Argentina, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Experts spoke to Newsweek about what students can expect if the Trump administration abolishes the Department of Education.

President Trump’s threat to retake the canal came out of the blue, inflaming Panamanians. But Trump’s view is nothing new.

Leffler, June 20, 1979. (Photo by ... Friedman’s piece on the subject, titled “What if Reagan had been more like Carter?” Opinion | What If Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan Lived In This ...

After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by ... ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, ...

One of the hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, is shown to the crowd by Iranian students Nov. 8, 1979. The Hamas-Israel ceasefire evokes the transition of power when Jimmy Carter ...

(AP Photo) The role of Trump and Reagan in both cases is the subject of heavy debate. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian Islamic ... President Jimmy Carter’s inability to free the hostages was seen ...

Taken hostage during the Carter administration when the US Embassy was overrun in Tehran in 1979, the 52 hostages weren’t released until President Reagan was giving his inaugural address.

That same year, 1979, the Soviet Union pushed into next-door Afghanistan to reinforce that country’s faltering communist government. Soon after, Carter ... Ronald Reagan was in the White ...

Five years later, a year after Carter was trounced by Ronald Reagan, Carter and Ford found themselves together on Air Force One flying to Egypt for the funeral of Anwar Sadat, the assassinated ...

I learned that, too, in 1979, when, Jimmy Carter’s bungled US presidency hung ... recession and high unemployment that led to Ronald Reagan becoming president on the back of his sunny ‘It ...