“He stole my life,” Gene Mills said. “That was my life. He took it away from me.” ...

Forty-four years later, it’s even more apparent President Jimmy Carter made the wrong decision to call for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Somewhere between his greatest foreign-policy success (the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt) and his greatest failure (the Iran hostage crisis) sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in ...

sits the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet invasion of ...

FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses during a speech to applaud the U.S. Olympic Committee's stand on the Moscow Olympics ... Committee's House of Delegates to boycott the 1980 Summer Games ...