Washington is run by very old people - CNNPolitics
Looking forward to being in office at 95.
Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, [is] 88. He jogs in a new video announcing he'll run for an eighth 6-year Senate term and posted to his Twitter feed. [...] He was elected to his second Senate term in 1986, the year before the youngest current senator, Democrat Jon Ossoff of Georgia, was born. [...] Grassley would be 95 in 2029 when the term ends.
After three General Secretaries dying in a five year span, half the reason the CCCP picked Gorbachev was because he was young and thus unlikely to croak in five years.