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The majority of presidents have been under 60. Obama, Clinton, Bush 2, Jimmy Carter, JFK, both Roosevelts...
Only Trump and Biden have been over 70. Regan missed it by like 20 days.
only one of those have been recent. hillary might've been younger but we all know how that went lol. bush 2 electric boogaloo would've been pretty close though.
What is recent? W. Bush was four presidents ago, Clinton was only five presidents ago. We're only on our 46th president since Washington was inaugurated in 1789, 235 years ago. When you go through presidents that slowly, it's easy to have your sample thrown off if you just include a couple of decades.
Yeah I felt like including anyone older than the 1900's was cheating considering people back then died in their 60's from having bad teeth back then, let alone bloodletting.