“In October of 1924, in the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, population barely six hundred, a woman named Allie Smith gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanor Rosalynn, and on the same day in the same town, a family named Carter was already raising a boy named James Earl Jr. who was just shy of his first birthday….

a Habitat for Humanity worksite in New York City alongside other volunteers, beginning an association with the organization that would eventually result in more than four thousand homes built or repaired across fourteen countries. Jimmy wore a Habitat for Humanity shirt to his hundredth birthday celebration in Plains in October of 2024, surrounded by four generations of family, the oldest person ever to have held the American presidency.”