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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:42 PM Jun 2018

George H.W. Bush just became the first former US president to turn 94

Source: CNN




By Sarah Hallam, CNN

Updated 11:02 AM ET, Tue June 12, 2018

Washington (CNN)Here's a birthday present for George H.W. Bush, who turned 94 on Tuesday: He's now the first former president to reach that age.

Bush is celebrating at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine, as he has in years past, family spokesman Jim McGrath said.

It is a "very low-key day with family, which, as you know, is perfection as he sees it," McGrath said.
Bush Sr. sky-dives on 90th birthday

He'll be joined in the exclusive club on October 1, when former President Jimmy Carter will celebrate his 94th birthday.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/politics/george-hw-bush-turns-94/index.html

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George H.W. Bush just became the first former US president to turn 94 (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
Older than me MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #1
I'm glad they knocked Reagan off the top spot. Aristus Jun 2018 #2
Close to Pres. Jimmy Carter & Queen Eliz., Prince Philip who just turned 92, 97. appalachiablue Jun 2018 #3

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
1. Older than me
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:45 PM
Jun 2018

By a couple of months.

May beat me. I have a wet cough these last two weeks I can't shake.

Getting old is not for pansies.

Aristus

(66,388 posts)
2. I'm glad they knocked Reagan off the top spot.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:46 PM
Jun 2018

I hope Jimmy Carter lives forever, or will at least be the first Presidential centenarian.

appalachiablue

(41,146 posts)
3. Close to Pres. Jimmy Carter & Queen Eliz., Prince Philip who just turned 92, 97.
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:51 PM
Jun 2018

"He'll be joined in the exclusive club on October 1, when former President Jimmy Carter will celebrate his 94th birthday.
Bush has been the oldest living president in history since he outlived Gerald Ford, who died in 2006 at the age of 93. The previous record-holder, Ronald Reagan, also was 93 when he passed away in 2004, but Ford outlived him by more than a month."

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