In 1981, former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon stopped by the White House on their way to Egypt, where they were to lead the official delegation to the funeral of assassinated President Anwar Sadat. Taking note of the then rare occasion of three ex-presidents standing together, Sen. Robert Dole quipped, “Carter, Ford and Nixon: see no evil, hear no evil and evil.”
Since then, medical science, the relative youth of those elected — and the karma that rewards the 94-year-old Carter for being a singularly decent human being — has increased the size of the Former Presidents Club.