6/20/2023 0 Comments Such a fun ageAt 80, he is older than roughly 96 percent of his fellow Americans. He joined the Senate in 1973 7 of his 99 colleagues from that year are still alive. WHEN JOE BIDEN was a child, there were only 48 states. "He's not," Donilon says, with careful understatement, "the most inclined to kind of go to talking about his age." So the president going off-script was notable-especially on this subject, even when raised cleverly and obliquely. One key to Biden's success as president has been playing against the stereotype that he's a gaffe-prone logorrheic. "He made it up right there," Donilon tells me later. Jill Biden he had written parts of Biden's State of the Union speech but not those lines. He knows the way Biden thinks better than just about anyone other than the first lady, Dr. Donilon, the administration's top strategist, has been working closely with Biden for more than 40 years. Those words got the attention of Mike Donilon, sitting in the Capitol audience.
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