There was a flyover of jets in his hometown, and 100 people became US citizens at a naturalisation ceremony in his honour.

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    271·
    3 months ago

    You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.

    (Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        31·
        3 months ago

        Could be. Maybe he said he never wanted to see another peanut as long as he lived and an old witch lady granted him that wish… but peanuts are all around him as memorabilia!