Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has doubts about older individuals running and serving as president of the United States.
The 99-year-old foreign policy veteran recently told CBS News that the job of a president “takes a certain capacity, physically.”
He said “there’s some advantages in maturity” but also warned that “there are dangers in exhaustion, and a limited capacity to work” with increased age.
Kissinger’s perspective on the presidency comes after serving as a national security adviser and then as a secretary of state for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977. He has also met with and advised other U.S. presidents and world leaders in the decades since. Kissinger’s perspective is also informed by his own decline over time. Kissinger is blind in one eye, has difficulty hearing, and has endured multiple heart surgeries….}