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Happy Birthday, Mr. President
After months of fretting about getting older, President Bush turns 60 on Thursday. Bush celebrated his birthday with friends Tuesday at a White House party on Independence Day and there weren't supposed to be any festivities on Thursday. Still, the occasion was expected to be noted in a long day of meetings and public appearances, including a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
In speech after speech, Bush has referred to himself as the "old president - getting older by the minute, by the way"; as one of "the gray-haired folks"; as "getting older"; and as just flat-out "old."
"For many boomers, turning 60 is a fairly significant shock," said Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at Cornell University. "The generation that believed it would be young forever, clearly will not. ... The boomers are having a hard time with the existential reality of life not being one open-ended opportunity after another."
Dr. J. Edward Hill, the immediate past president of the American Medical Association and a family physician from Tupelo, Miss., has seen many patients display Bush's chatty angst. But he said the president's joshing around is one of the healthiest approaches.
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"When you worry about something, you talk about it," he said. "The stints of humor are critically important."
© 2006 Associated Press.
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