Los Angeles ? On Sunday, Gerald R. Ford became the longest living U.S. president in the country’s history.

Ford turned 93 on July 14. As of Sunday, he had lived 93 years and 121 days, one day longer than Ronald Reagan’s age when he died.

“The length of one’s days matters less than the love of one’s family and friends,” Ford said in a statement last week from the Rancho Mirage compound he shares with former first lady Betty Ford, 88.

Ford was president from Aug. 9, 1974, when Richard Nixon resigned, until January 1977. He’s suffered a variety of health problems in recent years, including undergoing heart procedures at the Mayo Clinic in August.

The oldest living former first lady is Lady Bird Johnson, who turns 94 next month. Bess Truman, who died in 1982 at age 97, was the longest living first lady in U.S. history.