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Click here: McClatchy Washington Bureau 08/23/2006 McCain's age could affect expected presidential run
But John McCain is off the charts!
Some few decades it was regarded as impossible for anyone to run for the Presidency if he was older than 60. That has changed, a great deal.
John F. Kennedy (whom I admire in many respects) ran and won at age 43.
But as Richard Reeves has reported in his fine tick-tock of the JFK Presidency, Kennedy was a very sick man when he ran --- from war injuries and Addison's Disease.
As I understand it, Addison's was treated with an early form of cortisone which yielded an intense sexual drive --- and a feeling of invulnerability.
Pumped full of cortisone, he negotiated about nuclear arms with Nikita Khruschev in Paris.
The man with "the bag" of nuclear launch codes was nearby.
And JFK felt invulnerable?
He wasn't; we weren't.
Very dangerous stuff. It worked out OK.
Ben
But John McCain is off the charts!
Some few decades it was regarded as impossible for anyone to run for the Presidency if he was older than 60. That has changed, a great deal.
John F. Kennedy (whom I admire in many respects) ran and won at age 43.
But as Richard Reeves has reported in his fine tick-tock of the JFK Presidency, Kennedy was a very sick man when he ran --- from war injuries and Addison's Disease.
As I understand it, Addison's was treated with an early form of cortisone which yielded an intense sexual drive --- and a feeling of invulnerability.
Pumped full of cortisone, he negotiated about nuclear arms with Nikita Khruschev in Paris.
The man with "the bag" of nuclear launch codes was nearby.
And JFK felt invulnerable?
He wasn't; we weren't.
Very dangerous stuff. It worked out OK.
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 11:48 AM
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