Getting up there

John McCain is 70 today, which means he’ll be 72 years, 4 months, and 22 days old on January 20, 2009.

Just sayin’.

Update: Trivia time. President Washington was born in 1732. Presidents Clinton and Bush II were born in 1946. That range encompasses 22 decades. Name the two decades between the 1730s and the 1940s without a presidential birth.

This is obscure, but there is already a hint above.

Three presidents were born in round years (years ending in 0). Those count as the beginning of a decade, not the end.

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  1. No president was born between Lincoln in 1809 and Grant in 1822. So, 1810s is one decade without a presidential birth. And, so far, no president was born between Carter in 1924 and Bush II in 1946. So, 1930s is the other.

    No president was born between Eisenhower in 1890 and Johnson in 1908, a gap of nearly 18 years; but Eisenhower covered the 1890s and Johnson the 1900s, so no decade was missed.

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