The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises questions about age and politics. Some of those are profoundly relevant today.
Dole was 73 when he ran against President Bill Clinton, who had just turned 50, an occasion that prompted Dole to tell the nation that he had "more yesterdays than tomorrows." The sitting president just turned 79. His bete noire, the former president and perhaps his future presidential-election foe, is 75.
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