In 1984, President Ronald Reagan answered the age question with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.
Politics FILE - President Ronald Reagan, left, and his Democratic challenger Walter Mondale , shake hands before debating in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 22, 1984. The age question for presidential candidates is more than four decades old.
Today, Democratic President Joe Biden, 81, is struggling for such a redemptive moment after a disastrous debate performance against Republican former president Donald Trump, 77. Those 90 minutes last week set off alarms among Democrats hoping Biden would keep Trump from returning to the White House — and heightened concern amongof how either elderly man would govern a complex nation of more than 330 million people for four more years.
That didn't happen. Reagan served two full terms, leaving office in 1989. He announced in 1994 that he had been diagnosed with The president, then 73, rambled and hesitated. He seemed to lose his train of thought at one point, and appeared tired at others. No one had seen him perform publicly in such a way, recalled Rich Jaroslovsky, who was then White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and co-author of a story headlined: “New Question in Race: Is Oldest U.S.
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