Uganda, March 13 -- Halfway around the world, President Joe Biden 81, and former President Donald J Trump 77, as expected clinched their respective parties' nominations for president. President Trump is now just one year shy of the age when Ronald Reagan was, when he exited office in 1989.

Ronald Reagan ended his second term, somewhat battered by the Iran-Contra Arms scandal involving the sale of US arms to Iran which was prohibited by law and funding the Contras guerillas who were fighting the Sandinistas, left wing revolutionaries in power in Nicaragua. Reagan's popularity dipped but he left office with record 60% approval ratings, just 30 percent of Americans disapproved of him. His movie star looks, and optimism, "Its morning again i...