Is a good life the greatest achievement? Jimmy Carter is often called a forgettable president. But millions of Americans look to their longest-lived leader for moral guidance.
Lessons from a 100-year-old president
Centenarian: Jimmy Carter was born in 1924, the same year that Denmark claimed Greenland and the first crossword puzzle was published. Glossary
Jimmy Carter - The US president from 1977 to 1981. He was a Democrat.
Georgia - A state in the southern USA. Also a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia.
Governor - In the USA, governors are elected leaders of the 50 states.
Mark Fisher - Fisher was a blogger, philosopher and teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was known for his writings on radical politics.
USSR - The United Socialist Soviet Republic, the USA’s main rival in the Cold War before it collapsed and broke up into a number of smaller states in 1991.
Egypt - A country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East.
Israel - A country in the Middle East, and the only Jewish nation in the modern period. It is seen by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the Holy Land.
White House - The official residence of the US president, in Washington DC. Burnt by British troops in 1814, it was rebuilt and painted white to hide the smoke stains.
Ronald Reagan - Originally an American actor and politician, Reagan became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989.
Subsidies - Money given by the state or another body to help keep prices low.
Insurgencies - Revolts or uprisings.
Contras - US-backed right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 and opposed the Marxist government of Nicaragua.
Nicaragua - A country in Central America with a population of 6.8 million.
Eulogy - A speech about someone's life that is often read out at their funeral.
Gerald Ford - The Republican Party US president from 1974 to 1977.
Republican Party - Also known as the Grand Old Party or GOP, it is one of the USA's two major political parties. Its first president was Abraham Lincoln. It sits on the right of the political spectrum.
Barack Obama - The Democrat US president between 2008 and 2016.
North Korea - A country formed in 1945 when Japanese-occupied Korea was split between a Communist government in the north and a capitalist one in the south. Today it is extremely reclusive, and hostile to the West.
South Korea - An East Asian nation on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, it shares one of the world’s most heavily militarised borders with North Korea. South Korea has a population of about 52 million.