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On this day in history President Lyndon Baines Johnson had a conversation about the Vietnam War with former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. On Tuesday former President Jimmy Carter visited the museum named after LBJ to discuss his new book, "White House Diary,” and the situation in Egypt. During his talk, Mr. Carter said he supported President Obama's handling of the Egyptian uprising but said he's still worried about the prospects for peace in the Middle East. “What's gonna happen now I don't know. But, as you all realize the effort by the United Sates to bring...

FORMER US president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state's atomic arsenal. Asked at a news conference at Wales' Hay literary festival yesterday how a future US president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Mr Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally. "The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (Russia) has about the same, Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry...

The Jimmy Carter TrifectaBeep! Beep! Come on, Jimmy! Time to go! Jimmy Carter continues his brave but losing battle against diarrhea of the mouth. Carter, ex-president, continued his nearly 3-decades-long "Crusade to Be Relevant" by calling for the European Union to break with the U.S. over Jimmy's Kids, the Palestinians. Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival, described the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its...