The oldest president ever is in better health than many presidents, and has greater medical and wellness resources than all of them. His handling of difficult foreign policy challenges puts him in the first tier of U.S. presidents on that front. George W. Bush did it when he was president and he was 54 when he took office. It is thought he had five such cardiac incidents including the one that killed him, five years after he left office, at age 65. As a PBS investigation into his health put it, “long before he died at age 46, Kennedy was a very sick man.”

Source: New York Times April 30, 2023 02:44 UTC