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Former President Jimmy Carter Celebrates 95th Birthday

Associated Press

   ATLANTA - Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday on Tuesday,
   becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he
   continues his humanitarian work and occasionally weighs in on politics
   and policy.

   Carter still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, and planned no public
   celebrations on Tuesday. But he's had plenty to say recently, warning
   that re-electing President Donald Trump would be "a disaster" and
   expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful
   advocate against armed conflicts in the future, including "wars by the
   United States."

   "I just want to keep the whole world at peace," Carter said as he
   presented his annual Carter Center report last month.

   "We have been at war more than 226 years. We have been at peace for
   about 16 years" since the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he said.
   And every U.S. military conflict from the Korean War onward has been a
   war of "choice," he said.

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