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.
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.
Renewable - Energy sources, such as wind and solar power.
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.
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.
Barack Obama - The Democrat US president between 2008 and 2016.
Envoy - A representative, usually from a government.
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.