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...small to support a valid statistical trend. Yet a glance at this century's Chief Executives and their Inaugural ages suggests that the presidency is growing grayer (unless Reagan passes along the secret of his Hollywood hair): Theodore Roosevelt, 42; Taft, 51; Wilson, 56; Harding, 55; Coolidge, 51; Hoover, 54; Franklin Roosevelt, 51; Truman, 60; Eisenhower, 62; Kennedy, 43; Johnson, 55; Nixon, 56; Ford, 61; Carter, 52; Reagan...
DIED. Turner Catledge, 82, newspaper reporter and editor who was managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1951 to 1968; of complications following a stroke; in New Orleans. A courtly Mississippian hired by the Times after impressing Herbert Hoover with his 1927 reporting on devastating Southern floods, Catledge was known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before...
Ordinarily, it is simply assumed that a first-term President will run for reelection, even if his prospects seem as dubious as those of Jimmy Carter-or, for that matter, as hopeless as those of Herbert Hoover. But Reagan would be the first President to be less than three weeks shy of his 78th birthday when he finished a second term. And he does not feel the driving personal ambition that would make re-election a psychological necessity...
...sense of racial fairness may have cost him his seat two years later. He was defeated after voting against a resolution that criticized Mrs. Herbert Hoover for inviting the wife of a black Congressman to the White House. Recalls Pepper: "I thought my political career had died aborning...
...chance to unseat an incumbent next year. It has a rare opportunity to run against an Administration with no notable foreign policy successes, with an economy that can only be called in shambles, and with a line-up of high-level officials that may be the worst since Herbert Hoover...