Former President Jimmy Carter teaches a Sunday-school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on August 23, 2015. The 90-year-old Carter gave a lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend. #

In a 1952 photo, Lieutenant Jimmy Carter (top) peers at instruments on the submarine USS K-1. Directly in front of Carter, smoking a cigar, is Don Dickson. He had forgotten he ever served with Carter until he came upon the photo during Christmas of 1977. A friend got it to the White House where Carter wrote: "To my friend Donald Dickson - Jimmy Carter, USS K-1 to White House." #

On April 3, 1970, former State Senator Jimmy Carter listens to applause at the Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, after announcing his candidacy for governor. In the background, his wife, Rosalynn, holds their 2-year-old daughter, Amy, who joined in the applause. #

Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter holds a handful of peanuts (referencing his career as a peanut farmer) during a campaign event in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1976. #

In July of 1976, Jimmy Carter speaks to the crowd gathered on the convention floor at New York's Madison Square Garden, after they nominated him to be the Democratic presidential candidate. #

In Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, the crowd surges forward as Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, far left, wades out to shake hands following a rally on October 31, 1976. #

President-elect Jimmy Carter carries his daughter Amy's doll house from his home in Plains, Georgia, to a truck that will transport it to their new home, the White House, on January 17, 1977. A worker from Carter's peanut warehouse gives a hand, and they are followed by a Secret Service agent. #

U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center left, takes the oath of office as the 39th president of the United States, administered by Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger, at the east portico of the Capitol in Washington, D.C, on January 20, 1977. Shown from left are former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Walter Mondale, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Rosalynn Carter (standing between Carter and Burger), and former President Gerald Ford, far right. #

President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter, alongside Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh, meet with officials at the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant in 1979. #

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the North Lawn of the White House after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on March 26, 1979. Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing peace negotiations in 1978. The rest of the Arab world shunned Sadat, condemning his initiative for peace. President Carter was pivotal in bringing the two leaders to meet at Camp David. #

In this July 15, 1979, photo, the college student Chuck McManis watches President Jimmy Carter's nationally televised speech regarding the national energy crisis at a service station in Los Angeles, as an attendant fills up a customer's car. #

Amy Carter runs up to her father to say goodbye on the South Lawn of the White House on November 30, 1979, as the president prepares to board a helicopter on his way to Camp David. #

President Jimmy Carter, left, and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, right, sign the documents of the SALT II Treaty in the Vienna Imperial Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on June 18, 1979. Behind the heads of state are, from left to right: National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin, and Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov. #

A grim-faced President Carter, seated at a desk in the Oval Office of the White House, tells of the aborted rescue effort intended to get the 53 American hostages out of Iran, on April 25, 1980. Carter said the mission was scrubbed after an "equipment failure" and that no military hostilities occurred. In the failed mission, eight servicemen were killed and two aircraft were destroyed. #

President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter host President-elect Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, on a tour of the White House prior to Inauguration Day, in 1981. #

Former President Jimmy Carter uses a handsaw to even an edge as he works on a Habitat for Humanity home in Pikeville, Kentucky, on June 16, 1997. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have volunteered a week of their time annually to Habitat for Humanity since 1984. #

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter greets a torchlight procession from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in downtown Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2002. Carter was awarded the prize for his "decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." #

Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, shakes hands with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a ceremony marking his 89th birthday in Johannesburg on July 18, 2007. #

From left: Former President George H. W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and former President Jimmy Carter gather for a photo in the Oval Office on January 7, 2009, in Washington, D.C. #

Former President Jimmy Carter, center, and Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate Raul Rodriguez pose wearing proximity suits during a tour of the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu in San Diego, California, on March 10, 2012. Carter and his foundation's nearly 250 guests and flag officers spent the day visiting with sailors and Marines, seeing various areas of the ship and aircraft. #

President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, first lady Michelle Obama, and former President Bill Clinton wave from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the commemoration ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2013. #

Former President Jimmy Carter works between his wife, Rosalynn Carter, right, and the singer Trisha Yearwood, left, at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 2, 2015. Behind Yearwood is her husband, the singer Garth Brooks. #

The 92-year-old former President Jimmy Carter discusses the meaning of a biblical passage during his Sunday-school lesson at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Carter's hometown of Plains, Georgia, on March 25, 2017. #

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, sit together during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary in Plains, Georgia, on July 10, 2021. #