Former president Jimmy Carter

Former president Jimmy Carter, who has already lived longer than any other U.S. president, is celebrating his 98th birthday on Saturday.

The two are rarely apart, and they were in their living room, together, speaking with family and friends on his birthday. “People look at him as a person of values and principles, and they miss that in politics today.” A graduate of the U.S. [ he taught Sunday school](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/04/jimmy-carter-says-he-is-completely-ease-with-death/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16) in his local church. After leaving Washington, he spent decades promoting human rights and democracy around the world, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. For decades, the Carters worked with Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable housing and helped rebuild destroyed homes after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Former president Jimmy Carter turns 98 today. The 39th president of the United States was born on October 1, 1924 in rural Georgia, and after serving as ...

"We came out of the White House completely satisfied with the way we had acted in the trial that we made to overcome difficulties. And here is a portrait of President Carter with his extended family. In 1984, Jimmy and Rosalynn began working with Habitat for Humanity. The original caption here is worth reading: "the former President thoroughly enjoys the woodworking tools given to him as a going away gift from his Cabinet and staff. "The Georgia governorship is one of the most powerful in the nation. And that was on two battleships, the Wyoming and the Mississippi," he That was one of the most pleasant four years of my life," he would "When I was five years old, if anybody asked me what I wanted to do in the future, I would say I want to go to the Naval Academy and be a naval officer. After his father died, he moved home to Plains, and soon entered politics in Georgia. After graduation, Carter was assigned to the U.S.S. "So between the two, between West Point and Annapolis, which was the only two free universities we knew about in those days, I chose Annapolis. He's been an ex-president longer than anyone else in history; Carter became the oldest living former president in American history on his 95th birthday three years ago, and he makes history every single day.