Earlier today I came across these opening lines in an article at Vox.
Joe Biden is very old. He was born closer to the Battle of Gettysburg than the 2024 election. He was an adult before the JFK assassination and a senator before the fall of Saigon. And it shows.
After rambling on for several thousand words, Vox concludes that Biden needs to stick it out rather than resign. But the line about the Battle of Gettysburg really got me thinking. Just how old is Joe Biden?
Of course we all know he’s 81 now. He was born November 20, 1942. But what does that mean in terms of the world he was born into compared to the one we’re in today. It got me thinking about things that didn’t exist when Joe Biden was born and I quickly came up with a list. Some of these may surprise you.
The Slinky – Yes, that springy toy that you probably had as a kid even if, like me, you were a kid in the 1970s. The…
