How’s that old saying go? Something like “you can make butter from a peanut, but cancer can’t lick an old peanut farmer”? Is that how it goes?

Okay so this utterance never existed — we made it up for this post — but it’s nevertheless proving to be true in the case of former commander-in-chief, U.S. Navy officer and agricultural hero Jimmy Carter (the 39th President of the United States of America) because, according to him, he’s cancer-free — after being diagnosed with a both liver and brain cancer back in August.

The former grain legume producer is a spry 91 years of age.

Watch him tell a gathering of smiling faces the happy news Sunday while attending his Georgian church (he was there to teach one of his regular Bible study lessons) and the breakthrough that enabled such a recovery — a newly-approved auto-immune drug called Keytruda: