Original sentence: At 80 years of age, he memorized five of Shakespere's plays because cataracts threatened to blind him, but an operation saved his sight.Following this defeat, Buckner retired to Glen Lily.From June 1912 on, Buckner was the oldest man to have been a United States governor.The following year, he visited old Mexican-American War battlefields where he had served
Edited sentence: At 80 years of age, Buckner memorized five of Shakespere's plays because cataracts threatened to blind him, but an operation saved his sight.Following this defeat, Buckner retired to Glen Lily but remained active in politics.In 1903, he supported his son-in-law, Morris Belknap, for governor against Goebel's lieutenant governor, J.The following year, he visited his son, who was stationed in Texas, and toured old Mexican-American War battlefields where he had served.Though he always claimed membership in the Democratic party, he opposed the machine politics of William Goebel, his party's gubernatorial nominee in 1899.When the Democrats again nominated William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 presidential election, Buckner openly supported Bryan's opponent, Republican William Howard Taft