After walking a half-mile to their friend Jill Stuckey’s house, the former first couple feasted on salmon and broccoli casserole on paper plates, plastic Solo cups of ice water and one glass each of “bargain-brand chardonnay,” according to the Post.

Unlike his successors, the Democratic former president, who served one term, purposefully chose not to join corporate boards or get paid as a public speaker because “he didn’t want to capitalize financially on being in the White House.”

Wherever they could be spendy, they are conservative.

While others choose to fly via private jet, the Carters fly commercial.

Asked if he thought any future ex-president will ever live the way he does, Carter replied, “I hope so. But I don’t know.”

"At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know the people of our state as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." - Gubernatorial Inaugural Address (12 January 1971)

1971... 47 years later and we are still working on this.