• arin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Bill Clinton is only 77, WTF why is our current president 81 when the former president 30 years ago is currently younger???

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      9 months ago

      Clinton (and Obama, for that matter) were exceptionally young presidents.

      Clinton was the youngest president at the time of his induction since Kennedy (Kennedy was also the youngest President at the end of his term for other reasons, namely because it was the youngest a President had ever died, if that makes sense). JFK was the youngest since TR, who was the youngest ever, and Obama was only a year or so younger than Clinton at the time of induction.