Jimmy Carter just became the oldest living former president ever

[SaysWho?]

At 94 years and 172 days old, Carter has passed the previous record held by the late President George H.W. Bush."

 

He and Mrs. Carter take walks, and they have followed a healthy diet for a lifetime," Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center, told CNN.

 

"Both President and Mrs. Carter are both determined to use their influence for as long as they can to make the world a better place, and millions of the world's poorest people are grateful for their resolve and heart," she added.

 

[CayceG]

I hope he hangs on until after Trump is out of office. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

His long life can be attributed to selling his peanut farm. 

[osxmatt]

Average age of President at death is 72 years old (73 if you don't factor assassinations).

[Greatoneshere]

Seeing Trump and what he's done to the reputation of the office of the presidency must, for a guy like him, truly hurt him inside. I feel bad thinking about it.  

[Signifyin(g)Monkey]

Arguably the least violent of the postwar presidents.  The Cold War led him to fund some bloodshed, (in the name of 'fighting communism') but he generally refrained from opening up new conflicts like his predecessors and successors did.

 

Also wrongly gets the blame for the stagflation crisis, which resulted largely from Nixon's going off the gold standard interacting with prior inflationary conditions.  Not that Nixon really had a choice--the country was bleeding gold stock  because of debts it was saddled with from prior wars. (Ike, Kennedy and LBJ's)  By the time Nixon came in the *entire* balance of payments deficit was military spending.  That's just not sustainable--You quickly run out of gold to cover the currency, plain and simple.  Tack the inflationary effect of the rapidly falling post-Nixon Shock dollar onto the worst economic slowdown since the end of the Depression (though smaller than the Great Depression and our own post-2008 Lesser Depression) and you've got a stagflation crisis that will assure you're denied reelection.

 

Unfortunately, he was also one of the more politically hapless postwar presidents, which didn't help either.