Jimmy Carter questions whether he could have handled the presidency at 80

“I hope there’s an age limit,” Carter said with a big grin as he sat next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter.

“You know, if I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don’t believe I could undertake the duties that I experienced when I was president,” he said. “For one thing, you have to be very flexible with your mind. You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them all together in a comprehensive way.”

Carter added that presidents “also have to adopt new ideas.”