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Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden pauses while speaking during an event Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Lancaster, Pa.
Matt Slocum / AP Photo
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden pauses while speaking during an event Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Lancaster, Pa.
Matt Slocum / AP Photo
Matt Slocum / AP Photo
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden pauses while speaking during an event Thursday, June 25, 2020, in Lancaster, Pa.
(Washington) — President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 Friday, and he’ll soon take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice.
As Biden wrestles with those issues, he will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrating to Americans that age is but a number.
Biden will enter office as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan.
Reagan left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years, 349 days old.
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