Jimmy Carter of his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter noted in 2006 that a funeral in Washington, D.C., with visitation at the Carter Center was planned as well. In the wake of Nixon's Watergate scandal, exit polls from the 1976 presidential election suggested that many still held Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon against him. By comparison, Carter was viewed as a sincere, honest, and well-meaning Southerner. Carter began his term with a 66 percent approval rating, which had dropped to 34 percent approval by the time he left office, with 55 percent disapproving. In the 1980 campaign, former California Governor Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter issued a statement that his medical scans no longer showed any cancer. On January 20, 2017, at age 92, Carter became the oldest living former president to attend a presidential inauguration. Carter, born October 1, 1924 (age ), also has the distinction of having the longest post-presidency in U.S. history, currently at . He is currently the second longest-lived president in history after George H. W. Bush, who was born 111 days before Carter. With Bush's death on November 30, 2018, Carter would become the longest-lived president on March 21, 2019. Carter has made arrangements to be buried in front