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Wheeling in the Years

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USA Today, along with seemingly every other media outlet, is pondering the implications of President Bush's 60th birthday this week. Today, the paper helpfully lists other famous Americans turning the big 6-0 this year:

First lady Laura Bush, singers Cher and Dolly Parton, Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, movie directors Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone, real estate tycoon Donald Trump, former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman. Actor Sylvester Stallone shares his birthday with President Bush.

Excuse me, but Pat Sajak? An entire generation of Americans to pick from, and he's the seventh-most famous one marking six decades on the planet in 2006?

 

Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.

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