For the record - Oct. 26, 2008
Presidents: The answer to question 4 in the “Common Man” quiz in the Oct. 19 Sunday Opinion said that if Barack Obama were elected, he could be the first president with a living grandparent. John Kennedy’s grandmother, Mary Hannon Fitzgerald, was in her late 90s during Kennedy’s presidency, and she outlived the president, dying in August 1964.
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