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If you were ever looking for a phone a friend on a game show, Doug Roche would be the man, my neighbour, the smartest person in the room.
He is 91 years old and looks 75. He has some heart issues but he gets around nicely on knees that have been rebuilt over the past four or five years. His mind is razor sharp and he continues to write books, now up to 22 now most on the subject of disarmament, often inside a larger construct: his self-published latest, Peace Prospects in the Biden Era, available on Amazon.
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When Slate debuted a feature called “80 Over 80” more than a decade ago, we had two goals in mind: to poke fun at America’s obsession with early achievers (and the 30 Under 30 industrial complex) and point to the lasting influence of octogenarians on American society. In 2008, John Paul Stevens topped the inaugural list.
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We brought the feature out of retirement this year because the power of the geriatric set in politics, in Hollywood, in culture writ large has never been clearer. America just elected its oldest president ever. Joe Biden, who bested one septuagenarian to win the primary and another to win the general election, will turn 80 before the midpoint of his term. The speaker of the House turned 80 this year. She’s joined by 11 other octogenarians in the House and seven in the Senate. Old money, in every sense, continues to have a disproportionate impact on the electoral process. But today’s most powerful 80-year-old