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The average age of our 39 Presidents when they took office is 55. The youngest was Theodore Roosevelt, who made it at 42, thanks to an assassin. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected President. The oldest is Reagan. The sample is too small to support a valid statistical...
The Democrats last held a national convention in San Francisco in 1920, nominating Ohio Governor James Cox; he was trounced by Warren G. Harding. The Republicans had equally bad luck with the choice they made at the Cow Palace in 1964: Barry Goldwater. This time 5,242 delegates and alternates...
Old men often find the old ways better, but Strout is a liberal who remembers without nostalgia when the World Almanac published an annual table of lynchings. He has watched at close hand one-third of all American Presidents. Characteristically, he insists that he has never been "intimate with any...
Braniffs fall resulted from an overly ambitious expansion program in the late 1970s. The only major U.S. airline still bearing the name of the men who founded it in 1928, Tom and Paul Braniff, the carrier served routes mainly in the Midwest and Latin America until 1965, when Harding L...
More specifically, student leaders question the commitment of law students who join their organizations. "It's hard to judge whether there's any real commitment there." Harding said. "Some times you see more activism, but then you see everyone headed for Wall Street firms."