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"Theodore Roosevelt would have been 80 years old when WW2 broke out, slightly younger than the previous president is now."
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Well, that is pretty wild to find out. And no less back in the 30s when life expectancy was not quite what it is today, especially for the world’s elite. But hey, if the Americans of the 30s trusted a man older than most apartment buildings, then why couldn’t we?
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"Warren G. Harding died at 58 in 1923, but his stepmother lived until 1964. His mistress lived until 1991."
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"John Quincy Adams is the only person who met both Washington and Lincoln."
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"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) shook hands with both John Quincy Adams and JFK"
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"John Tyler's (1790-1862) youngest daughter Pearl, lived long enough to regularly travel by plane. She died in 1947 at 87, 102 years after her father left the White House."
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Well that must have been quite the trip for young Pearl Tyler. To live through your father’s presidency and then to subsequently see the world turn on its head with industrial and technological revolutions is pretty wild. To think that her father had to travel by boat to accomplish international diplomatic missions.
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"William H. Upham (1841-1924) met Lincoln in 1862. Upham's son died in 2018, at 97. So, just 5 years ago someone could say: "My father met Lincoln"."
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