Former President Herbert Hoover, at Seventy-Five, Confesses His Hope to Make Ninety - Which He Did

Background

To the Goodyear Tire founder and philanthropist F.A. Seiberling, then celebrating a 90th birthday, a spritely Herbert Hoover, age 75, confesses that he too hopes to clock ninety.

Hoover got his wish; he died at ninety, in 1964 - then the second longest-lived President, bested only by John Adams, who lasted 76 days longer. Since Hoover's demise, however, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan place first and second in the longevity stakes.