Kenneth R. Moore, a 72-year-old delegate from Sun Lakes, Ariz., explained that attitude.
"I'm very excited," said David Giese, a 58-year-old delegate and small-business owner from Vermilion, Ohio.
Gus P. Bickford, a 37-year-old delegate from Westford, Mass., said that Mr. Gore had established himself by laying out his agenda in such detail.
Of one 17-year-old delegate, he wrote: "Yes, we do know HOT when we see it (even if she's a chick).
Jackie Curtiss, a 22-year-old delegate from Alabama and the youngest member of the platform committee, objected to an amendment calling for a ban on medication "that terminates human life after conception".
Gerald Pritchard, a 65-year-old delegate from Wallenport, Pa., said he thought the president would be able to make Pennsylvania a red state again simply by showing up.
When a 16-year-old delegate roused the Labour conference it was inevitable that comparisons would be drawn with William Hague, who displayed a similar precocity at the same age at a Tory conference 34 years ago.
Fifty-six-year-old delegate Liang Wengen, billionaire chairman of the construction equipment maker Sany Group, divulged one little-known benefit of joining the Communist party as a young man.
We were introduced to the second oldest delegate from Georgia.
At 84, the Rev. Wendell Foster has the distinction of being New York's oldest delegate.
