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Richard Overton the oldest living WWII veteran, listens during a Veterans Day ceremony attended by President Barack Obama, commemorating Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The president paid tribute to those who have served in the nation's military, including one of the nation's oldest veterans, the 107-year-old Overton of East Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Want to know the secret to living past 100?

For WWII veteran Richard Overton, it’s whiskey and cigars.

Time reports that the 107-year-old Austin, Texas native has a tablespoon of whiskey in his coffee every day.

"It keeps your muscles tender," he told Fox News in May.

He also smokes 12 cigars a day. He said those are his secrets to a long, healthy life; one that led him to celebrating Veterans Day with President Obama on Monday. Overton is believed to be the oldest living veteran in the country.

“I got good health and I don’t take any medicine,” he said. “I also stay busy around the yards, I trim trees, help with the horse. The driveways get dirty, so I clean them. I do something to keep myself moving.”

He also still drives.

Obama honored Overton during his remarks at the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Obama, Overton and other veterans also had breakfast prior to the ceremony.

“This is the life of one American veteran—living proud and strong in the land he helped keep free,” he said.

Overton volunteered for the war effort in 1942 when he was in his 30s. He was a part of the 188th Aviation Engineer Battalion and served in the South Pacific, according to USA Today.

“War’s nothing to be into,” he said. “You don’t want to go into the war if you don’t have to. But I had to go. I enjoyed it after I’d went and come back, but I didn’t enjoy it when I was over there. I had to do things that I didn’t want to do.”

Overton still lives in the house that he built after he returned home from the war. He has been widowed for 22 years, but has a younger, 89-year-old “lady friend.”