Stanley Schmidt Måste vinnaren vinna - novell i Analog Mars 1971. De vill ignorera tekniken och nominera honom oavsett. Men han påpekar att om tiden dilatation ignoreras, kan han inte bara springa, men hans nio år gamla dotter kan rösta för honom som hon föddes innan de lämnade jorden för decennier sedan.
He is persuaded to go ahead anyway. His manager says "What we need in a President is not chronology and years - it's leadership. Do you honestly believe that you, with your thirty-four years of leading people through crisis after crisis and coming out on top [are] less fit to be President than those other guys with their fifty years of fund-raising dinners and smoke-filled rooms? You can't believe that - -Look, the law's going to have to get more complicated on this age business. Right? So why not take the chance to recognise that maybe the way to complicate it is to scrap the age criterion - - give them an incentive to find another yardstick that means more - after the election. Because you - - are the best presidential material the country has seen in twenty years".