{"id":1926343,"date":"2023-05-08T00:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-offers-thoughts-on-older-people-running-for-president\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T00:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T04:44:01","slug":"99-year-old-henry-kissinger-offers-thoughts-on-older-people-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-offers-thoughts-on-older-people-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Kissinger, 99, shares views on elderly presidential candidates."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F99-year-old-henry-kissinger-offers-thoughts-on-older-people-running-for-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1926343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Talks Age and the Presidency<\/h2>\n<p>At the ripe old age of 99, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is opening up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/99-year-old-henry-kissinger-offers-thoughts-on-older-people-running-for-president\/\" title=\"Henry Kissinger, 99, shares views on elderly presidential candidates.\">fellow older folks running<\/a> for president. In an interview with veteran journalist Ted Koppel for CBS News, Kissinger expressed skepticism about anyone of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-vietnams-8-pearl-harbors-and-10-september-11s-more-than-165k-americans-dead-from-covid-in-bidens-first-100-days\/\" title=\"2 Vietnams, 8 Pearl Harbors, and 10 September 11s: More Than 165K Americans Dead From COVID in Biden\u2019s First 100 Days\">advanced age<\/a> as commander in chief. <\/p>\n<h3>The Advantages and Dangers of Age<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a certain capacity, physically,\u201d Kissinger said. \u201cThere\u2019s some advantages in maturity. There are dangers in exhaustion, and a limited capacity to work.\u201d The issue is a relevant one, as two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayoral-candidates-ramp-up-fighting-a-month-before-primary\/\" title=\"NYC Mayoral Candidates Ramp Up Fighting a Month Before Primary\">leading candidates<\/a> for president in 2024 are older than 75. One of them is President Joe Biden, who announced his re-election campaign last month. Already the oldest person to be president at 80, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term. The other is former President Donald Trump, who is 76.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns About Biden&#8217;s Age<\/h3>\n<p>Some Democrats and a recent New York Times editorial raised concerns about Biden\u2019s ability to serve a full eight years in office considering his age and signs of slowing down. Still, the president\u2019s allies have rallied behind Biden, and he received an early endorsement booster from 81-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is eschewing a third consecutive run for the White House.<\/p>\n<h3>A Vote of Confidence in Kamala Harris<\/h3>\n<p>Should there be a reason for a back-up, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) offered a vote of confidence in Vice President Kamala Harris, saying last weekend that she is prepared to become commander in chief. \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">vice president\u2019<\/a>s ready to run and ready to be president should that ever happen,\u201d Coons said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d \u201cI know our president has great confidence in her, and so do I.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Kissinger&#8217;s Age-Defying Work Ethic<\/h3>\n<p>Kissinger, who is set to turn 100 this month, reportedly remains very active and visible on the global stage several decades after his time serving as secretary of state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-to-pardon-gen-michael-flynn-per-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Per Report\">national security adviser<\/a>. Kissinger says he works about 15 hours a day following multiple heart surgeries and despite being blind in one eye and hard of hearing, according to Koppel\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<h3>Kissinger&#8217;s Willingness to Advise<\/h3>\n<p>When asked if he would fly to Moscow to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin upon the request of the president, Kissinger said he would be \u201cinclined\u201d to do it as an adviser, not as an \u201cactive person\u201d in a role such as secretary of state. Despite his age, Kissinger remains a respected voice in global affairs and a testament to the power of experience and wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ripe old age of 99, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is opening up about fellow older folks running for president. Veteran journalist Ted Koppel,\u00a0who interviewed Kissinger for CBS News, said Kissinger is \u201cskeptical\u201d about anyone of an advanced age as commander in chief. \u201cIt takes a certain capacity, physically,\u201d Kissinger said in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1926344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[24413,7064,3873,9196,26127,3849,4790,4467],"class_list":["post-1926343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-24413","tag-candidates","tag-elderly","tag-henry","tag-kissinger","tag-presidential","tag-shares","tag-views"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}