It is about time we stood up for old politicians! If the reader of this column was able to watch Donald Trump at the Republican Townhall Meeting in Manchester, Vermont, he was without question on his game. They may have been senior in years, but they all had sharp minds, with wits to match. I grew up with older people and learned to love them. He probably spent more time working on his community activities then making money, but he did both to the best of his ability.Īs a result of being born to older parents, by the time I was a teenager it seemed like everyone in my family was well aged. My father did not make it nearly as long as my mother did, but he worked until the last week of his life, albeit on a somewhat part-time basis.
She wound up managing the small office building owned by one of her friends, where she had her own office. She sold the engineering business in her early 80s but refused to retire. My mother made it past 102 and if you sat down and talked with her at any time during her life, she bragged not about her children or her spouse, but about her business achievements starting with being the first woman comptroller at Revlon in 1940, up through running her engineering business.
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