Watching the inauguration yesterday, I realized that six former and current U.S. presidents are still alive, which makes for over 13% of the total number of people to ever serve as president. (That’s true whether you count Cleveland as one or two.) The U.S. really is still a young country!
Also, sigh, two-thirds of impeached presidents representing three-quarters of all impeachments are among those six.
The USA, as a nation, is only a little bit older than three Joe Biden lifespans put end on end. Pretty mind-blowing.
Not a presidential statistic but this happened just a few weeks ago:
Yes…you read that right.
I was born in 1967 and was rocked as an infant by my great-grandma who was born in 1875. The Civil War ended only 10 years earlier. That makes me feel old.
… and over 16% of those who survived their term in office.
Ah yes, the current confabulations are merely expression borne of the inexperience of youth.
In 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution. “Too early to say,” he replied.
It seems probable he was actually referring to the French students’ revolts in 1968 rather than the French Revolution of 1789, but the misunderstanding was ‘too delicious’ to correct
Both Jimmy Carter and his VP (Walter Mondale) are still alive from the 1977-81 presidency.
And Queen Elizabeth II has been queen since 1953.
James is the most common first name for a US president. There have been six, but Jimmy Carter is the only one not to have served in the nineteenth century.
No, the US is not a young country. If you made a list of all the countries in 1789, only about a dozen of those have been countries continuously longer than that. The US is one of the oldest.
The UN was formed in my lifetime, with only a quarter of its present membership.