The previous record for US Presidential longevity was held by Ronald Reagan
Born 02/06/1911
Died 06/05/2004
34,088 Days
Gerald Ford, born July 14, 1913 has lived 34,089 days as of Nov 12, 2006 .
Congratulations Gerry !!!
Anything that bests Ronnie Rayguns is A-OK with me. 
Atta boy Gerry! Will he be our first presidential centenarian?
Now if Jimmy Carter, who seems to be in fairly good health, keeps it going we could have 3 consecutive presidents that lived past 90.
Ford is on my DeathPool list. The longer he lives the less points I get.
I am so going to Hell for that. Honestly, I wish him the longest life he can possibly live.
That’d be pretty good, but it looks to me like Robert Byrd is aiming to be our first centenarian sitting Senator.
He’ll be 95 when his next term ends, and I have no doubt that if he’s still breathing he’ll run for re-election. 
Have you forgotten about Strom Thurmond so soon?
Hmmm. I didn’t remember that Strom made it to 100 while in office.
I guess Byrd will just have to shoot for being the first sesquicentenarian Senator. Good luck to him. 
Congrats, Jerry!
Ford is already the subject of one of my favoritest bits of trivia ever, of course: “Which US President was born a King?” See, his biological father and his mother’s first husband was Leslie Lynch King, and in fact Ford was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His parents divorced when he was a baby and before the boy was old enough to remember his mother had remarried, to Gerald Rudolff Ford, and the little fellow’s name was legally changed to Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. (Later he changed the spelling of his middle name to the more common Rudolph.) Ford himself didn’t learn about any of this until he was in his teens and has always maintained that as far as he is concerned, his stepfather was his true father.
Well, he has at last achieved something meritorous.
FORD GAINS PRESIDENCY WITH SMALLEST MAJORITY IN HISTORY
Carries No States, Wins No Votes
– Headline, National Lampoon, 1974
It’d be funny if the shortest sitting President of the 20th Century turned out to be the longest lived of 20th Century Presidents.
Ladybird Johnson is still alive, too. I find that even more bizarre.
To be fair, I’m not sure Strom was actually still sitting (up) at the time he made it.
She was mysteriously rejuvenated, oh, sometime around early 1973. I understand her hair turned quite gold from grief.
[sub]Thank you, Oscar Wilde[/sub]
And if he manages to live another two years, he’ll beat Hoover’s record for living longest after leaving office (31 years, 10 months).