In The USA: the Next Revolution

[Pete]

'Oh, a lot has changed ... and not much of it for the danged better. He said, grumpily in his hoarse old voice...

Although off-topic, this story about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. comes to mind:

A well-known anecdote has Holmes, riding in a carriage with a law clerk while in his nineties, passing a beautiful young woman on the street. Holmes is said to have sighed, "Oh, to be seventy again!"