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Nicholas Goldberg: Are Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein too old to do their jobs?

Dianne Feinstein during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill Monday, March 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

In last week's issue of New York magazine, two photos of Sen. Dianne Feinstein are laid out side by side.

In the first, from 1971, she is smiling broadly, hair bobbed, wearing pearls — the first female president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She's about 38 years old.

On the facing page is Feinstein today, half a century later, in almost the same pose and pearls, but now her face is deeply lined, her shoulders hunched, her expression substantially less joyous. She looks irritated. The caption: "The oldest sitting U.S. senator."

It should go without saying,

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