It’s the world’s most exclusive fraternity and, on Thursday, all five members of the so-called presidents club will gather to honor one of their own.

Carter did not get along nearly so well with the other living presidents. The outsider president was an outlier after his presidency, too. Nevertheless, past and present Oval Office occupants will attend Carter's state funeral this week in what could be the largest gathering of the presidents club since five attended Washington services for George H.

When he began his presidential bid, Jimmy Carter vowed that he “would not tell a lie.” But historians say his honesty made it harder to get things done and stay in office.

P resident Jimmy Carter was a prescient president. Our first great champion of human rights in the White House, President Carter under