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(17,235 posts)oasis
(49,338 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Ya think I'm dumb?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Well, I use the term loosely with regards to the current shit-gibbon-in-chief, but I recall a time in my very young life when we had precisely 1, and that was the guy in office, Tricky Dick.
The fact that 6 of 7 going back to the one who took office in 1976 (40 years hence) are still alive is actually pretty amazing, esp. since they're all males (being that males don't tend to live as long).
I wonder how many times (if ever) in US history there's been when there were 5 ex-POTUS' still alive esp. all of the last 5 elected in a row (counting dt)?
Just checked on Wiki, looks to me that prior to our current 'run' the most-ever alive at one time was 4, counting current POTUS. That's when JFK was President, and Hoover, Ike, and Truman were all still alive.