Trivia Item

Ronald Reagan was the oldest president elected, at age 69, and the oldest person to serve as president, at age 77 when his term ended.

You can use this information however you choose. Everyone seems to think Reagan did a good job. Maybe lots of experience is the best qualification for being president. It certainly doesn't hurt!

More presidential trivia:

Since George Washington's death in the 1790s, presidents or former presidents have died in every decade except four: the 1800s, 1810s, 1950s, and 1980s. No president or former president has died in the month of May.

Another odd coincidence occurred among the second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Bitter rivals throughout much of their lives, they both died on the same day, exactly fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has been rumored that Adams' last words were "Jefferson lives," not knowing that the former president had died just hours before.

Starting in 1840, every president who was elected in a year ending with a 0 (zero) died in office: Harrison (1840), Lincoln (1860), Garfield (1880), McKinley (1900), Harding (1920), Roosevelt (1940), and Kennedy (1960). The streak was broken with Reagan (1980).

The three presidents who presided over the bulk of the Vietnam War all died on the 22nd: Kennedy (November 22, 1963), Johnson (January 22, 1973), and Nixon (April 22, 1994).