I can no longer marvel that the President of the United States when I was born was still alive. People born as recently as 20 January 1993 could not say that. But I could.
Jimmy Carter was what was needed after Richard Nixon. But while no one becomes President without plenty of ambition and, shall we say, self-belief, Carter's good points did make him less than adept at the highest of high politics. Still, they made him an exemplary former President. Most of them are horrendous at that.
Once he was no longer President, then I would not bet against another 20 years for Joe Biden. But it is all visibly catching up with Bill Clinton, always the archetypal Boomer.
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