President John F. Kennedy

[Richard1978]

Hoover left office on March 4, 1933 and died in late 1964, yeah.

The gap between the election & the start of the a new Presidential term was longer then.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

Hoover left office on March 4, 1933 and died in late 1964, yeah.

[Richard1978]

Herbert Hoover lived until 1964, after being president from 1928 to 1932, which was possibly a record at the time for how long a president had lived after leaving office.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

To put the longevity of Jimmy Carter’s post-Presidency into context, think about this: at the end of Abraham Lincoln’s first term in 1865, he was the same age as Carter was when he left office in 1981 – 56 years old. If Lincoln had retired at the end of his first term and enjoyed the same length of a post-Presidency that Carter has, Lincoln’s retirement would have stretched into the second term of Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

Or how about this one: if John F. Kennedy had served two full terms as President and had a post-Presidency as long as Jimmy Carter’s, JFK would have been enjoying retirement during the first term of Barack Obama in 2010. And in 2010, JFK would have been 5 years younger than Jimmy Carter is today!

[George 1978]

I knew someone in the United States who was born in 1963, and for obvious reasons, has no memory of the President of the United States on the day he was born being alive. I have no memory of Jimmy Carter being President, but that is ironic because Carter was in the White House on the day I was born - and he is still with us, four and a half decades on! How many people in their mid 40s can say that the President of the United States on the day they were born is still alive? He was only seven years younger than Kennedy.

Not many.

[Victoria O'Keefe]

President Kennedy saved the world from nuclear war when the generals were screaming at him to launch on the USSR. If, anything, JFK is an UNDERRATED president.