... Great Grandfather figure for President. Say you have a child at age 24 and that child has a child at 24 and that child has a child at 24. Well, 3X24 is 72. That makes you a Great Grandfather. Donald Trump will be 73 next month and Joe Biden will be 77 in November. President of the United States seems to be the only job where a geriatric person is preferred.
It wasn't always so. How did this happen?
The first person to be 70 before retirement of the second term was Dwight D. Eisenhower who was 98 days past his 70th birthday. The oldest person to be president past 70 was, of course, Ronald Reagan who was within a week of being 78 by the end of his second term. The present president, Donald Trump, will be 73 next month and counting. Note: all of these are post-WW-II.
I find this trend toward older presidents to be scary.
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For the sake of completeness, I'll list the former presidents who lived to be at least 90 yrs old.
The oldest former president, Jimmy Carter, has yet to die and is over 94 and counting. He beats out George H.W. Bush who died at 94+. Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan had topped 93 when they died. John Adams and Herber Hoover both lived past their 90th birthdays.
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