Eisenhower voiced much deeper concern about the prospect of reelection. To Swede Hazlett he confided that he did think about the question of age; he would turn 65 in October 1955 and would hit 70 in his last year of a second term. “No man has ever reached his 70th year in the White House,” he pointed out, and wondered if that barrier should be broken. After all, “the last person to recognize that a man’s mental faculties are fading is the victim himself.”
