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    Mark Z. Barabak: Biden's fellow seniors have advice for the 81-year-old president: Lose the script, project your voice

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Dec 29, 2023 4 minutes
    President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn before boarding the Marine One presidential helicopter and departing the White House on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

    WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — For those who doubt Joe Biden's capacity to be president, Herb Klar has a suggestion: Swing by his neighborhood sometime.

    "They don't come to Rossmoor and see all the octagenarians ... and see how lively and bright and competent we all are," said Klar, 76, a retired clinical social worker, who was sporting a Golden State Warriors hoodie on a crisp afternoon on the east side of San Francisco Bay.

    Old age, he said, "is seen as a kind of freakishness."

    Biden is the oldest president in American history, making every day in office a milestone of sorts. He is attempting something

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