BILL CLINTON HITS SIXTY-FIVE

BILL CLINTON

b. William Jefferson Blythe III

August 19, 1946

BILL CLINTON

AT THE 1988

DEMOCRATIC

NATIONAL CONVENTION

In four years he would win the nomination and then the presidency,

and keep it through eight years and one impeachment (and one acquittal).

So -- now we have the second of our older Baby Boom presidents turning Medicare age. George W. Bush is the elder by forty-four days; both he and Clinton are first year Boomers (the first year after World War II). Barack Obama, who just recently did fifty, was born near (1961) but not at the end (1964) of the Boomer years.

For both Bush and Clinton I have given you pre-presidential pictures to compare what the office and the years did.

I have a riff on the subject of age -- or youth ("Youthiness Can Be Overrated") -- of presidents American and Russian here (the March 5, 2009, entry).

More on Clinton as the "Russia Hand" here. More to come in RUSSIA REDUX.

The news of the day about Bill Clinton is that he has become a Vegan (see here).

For more on this Clinton, click the label "Bill Clinton," below.