
Experience has been an issue in this presidential election, but it didn’t have to be. We have a number of former presidents right here, in the New York phone book.
There are, for example, three George Washingtons, one listed as George J. (there is also a G. Washington, who may be hiding his light under a bushel). Now since His Excellency served two full terms, there might be questions about re-re-electing him, given the 22nd Amendment. Yet that amendment had a Truman waiver, exempting “any person” holding the office “when this Article was proposed by the Congress,” or when it “becomes
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