Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

Trump is wrong: Jimmy Carter didn’t lose due to the Panama Canal. In a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump criticized Carter’s ‘mistake’ twice. But the Panama Canal Treaty isn’t the ...

Handing control of the Panama Canal from the U.S. over to the Central American country was one of President Jimmy Carter's most controversial, and most overshadowed, foreign policy achievements.

The Canal Zone in Panama had been under U.S. control for nearly 75 years. But in 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed treaties with Panama's leader, Gen. Omar Torrijos.

He was the first U.S. president who recognized the urgent need to review the outdated Panama Canal Treaty and the U.S. presence in the Canal Zone. "Carter was the one who started it," she says. "He ...