The Longest-Lived President

I'm a bit skeptical whenever I hear the announcement of a new "World's Oldest Person." First, it means that someone else has died, and, second, it's not a lasting title.
It seems the same with American presidents.
That said, I find it remarkably satisfying that Jimmy Carter has become, today, the longest-lived president in American history. Mr. Carter surpassed George H.W. Bush at 94 years and 172 days. 
Jimmy Carter is widely adjudged to have been a failure as a president. This evaluation is grossly unfair and inaccurate, and betrays our general American emphasis on image over actual accomplishment, propaganda over fact. His character has been assassinated by republicans, beginning with the abominable Reagan and his lackies, for 45 years. Carter's basic human decency, over the issue of the Shah of Iran seeking admission to the United States for treatment after being diagnosed with cancer, led to the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran, and the subsequent hostage crisis. He had the release of the hostages negotiated and agreed to when George H.W. Bush, acting for Reagan, communicated to the Iranians that a Reagan Administration would offer a better deal to Iran than Carter had. The Iranians sat on the hostages for additional time, until Reagan was sworn in. Reagan's people subsequently sold American arms, illegally, to the Iranian government, in order to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras' war against the Sandinista government. (Republicans have a long history of colluding with foreign governments against American interests. In addition to Trump and Reagan, Nixon killed an agreement over the Vietnam War in the same way, for the same purpose, in 1968, costing Hubert Humphrey the White House, and resulting in the only resignation from the American presidency. So far.)
Carter established the Departments of Education and Energy. He made both national issues. He installed solar panels on the White House (which Reagan had taken down). He preached and practiced conservation. He personally negotiated the only peace agreement between nations in the Middle East that has lasted: the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt. He and Walter Mondale remade the role of the vice president. He sought to dramatically decrease American dependence on oil from OPEC and other producers. He governed by intense study of the issues before him. And he was the only American president of my lifetime who actually practiced, in detail, the faith that he claimed to live by.
Jimmy Carter was a good president. 
He has been a great former president. He has made the eradication of the guinea worm one of his top priorities, and has very nearly gotten the world to that point. I will leave it to you to search out the horrible consequences of guinea worm infection. He has continued to this day to build housing, with his own hands, for low income people, through Habitat for Humanity. He has monitored more elections in more countries, and brought home more Americans held in other countries than anyone in my memory. Through the Carter Center, based in Atlanta, he has continued to advocate, forcefully, for human rights around the world. And particularly, since the days even before he left the Southern Baptist Church over its policies toward them, the human rights of women and girls. President Carter has never forgotten the remarkable guidance of his mother, Miss Lillian Carter, and has always treasured his astounding and full partnership of almost 72 years with former First Lady of the United States Rosalynn Carter. These relationships shaped President Carter's understanding of the desperate need for justice in education, employment, family planning, and rights, generally, for women. 
Jimmy Carter is a great man. He was an effective president, and has been the exemplar for former presidents. He has stood for what is right and just. He is just the man to be remembered as our longest living president.
I am proud, to this day, that the first vote I ever cast in a presidential election was for Jimmy Carter's reelection.