Regarding Ron Faucheux’s “The Presidency Can Add Years to Your Life” (op-ed, Dec. 10): In the era of Democrat versus Republican races (1856 to the present), individuals who sought and eventually won the presidency lived on average 75.1 years. Those who were nominated but never achieved the office managed only 70.9 years. As if the reputational hit for running and never winning weren’t bad enough. Everett Waters...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 16, 2018 16:07 UTC