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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:35 PM Original message |
IN the last 100 years which president came from the most modest upbringing |
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hedda_foil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Truman, Clinton and Nixon as an offhand estimate. |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. RE: |
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DODI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Even Split |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. I would venture a guess that it was Clinton |
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dawgman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. didn't LBJ come from dirt farmers in Texas? |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. LBJ |
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grytpype (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. And who came from the least modest upbringing? |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. good point |
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FlashHarry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 09:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
19. FDR's dad bought himself out of the draft during the Civil War. |
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soupkitchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. Maybe Eisenhowser |
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DODI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. Ike, too |
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glarius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 05:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I read somewhere that Reagan's father was an alcoholic and he was |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 05:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. reagen`s father |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 09:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Ike was born in Dennison, Texas |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. I think Nixon, |
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Ishoutandscream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 05:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Yes, Nixon came from very humble roots |
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hedda_foil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Both of Nixon's brothers were sick throughout his childhood. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
15. If modest upbringing is relative to the time a boy grew up, it's Clinton |
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rppper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 08:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. truman was not wealthy either..... |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. Herbert Hoover was an orphan. |
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Dob Bole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. Carter and Clinton |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:07 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. they had it tough but LBJ didnt have it easy |
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democrat in Tallahassee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. George W Bush was born a poor child in Texas. He is a self-made man. |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:20 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. LMAO |
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clar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
24. Calvin Coolidge |
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SayitAintSo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. Truman ...he was a haberdasher (sp?) |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
26. I saw Peggy Noonan blathering last year that Reagan... |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 11:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. even if he did he really betrayed them |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-12-03 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. Johnson's family was DIRT poor |
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