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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:43 PM Original message |
First political memory? |
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kitp (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. nixon-kennedy debate |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
32. kennedy...my mother campaigned for him in miami... |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. ten years old |
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Liberty Belle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. Saw Kennedy in a San Diego parade when I was six. - 1963. |
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dweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
19. November, 1963 |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Being about five years old... |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. Berlin Wall |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
116. Wow - you brought back a memory for me... |
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Suich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. I Like Ike! |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Everything happened that year, I never remember anything else until |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
117. Yep. 1952. Fourth grade, playing "king of the mountain" during recess. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. The first one that comes to mind . . . |
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Ignacio Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. 1992 Election |
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Jane Eyre (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. Four years old |
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Vadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
77. That's adorable and so cute!...........n/t |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nixon resigning |
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Autonomy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. A school-wide Carter vs. Ford election |
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justice1 (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:57 AM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Me too! |
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CPMaz (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 05:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. Hah! I voted for Carter in 6th grade. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. I remember watching my mother throw away sugar stamps |
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salvorhardin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Nixon resigning |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
94. common meme that a dem president meant a war |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. I also remember that, very early on, my grandmother explained |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:24 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. my mother's family blamed FDR because |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 12:06 AM Response to Reply #31 |
81. that is a bizarre reason to be annoyed at a president. |
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Blaze Diem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-04-06 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. My mom & dad talking about their Union of Farmers, that is, |
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low_phreaq (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
17. Nixon-McGovern |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Me too! |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
18. My dad, the procrastinator, putting off registering after we moved |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
20. Senator Jack Kennedy, October 1960 |
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Jane Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
21. Three years old! |
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Va Lefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
22. Robert Kennedy's Funeral |
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Betsy Ross (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
24. Going to the 1960 Democratic Convention. n/t |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
25. i voted for carter in grade school. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
27. about 5-6 years old, Reagan's re-election |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
144. My friend's dad worked on campaign travel for the Bush campaign |
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flaminbats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
28. Reagan's Inauguration.. |
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BlueCaliDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 12:13 AM Response to Reply #28 |
83. Governor Ronald Reagan's congratulatory letter to my late father... |
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Zookeeper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
29. The day President Kennedy was assassinated. |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
30. I grew up surrounded by politics - my cousin |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
33. watching Estes Kefauver being nominated for vp . . . |
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Awsi Dooger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
34. 1968 |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
35. hearing the weekly body count in vietnam in 1961 and thinking it was |
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Broken_Hero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 02:22 AM Response to Original message |
36. Mondale/Reagan |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
37. I remember asking my parents who they were going to vote for... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
38. With my folks, going to the polls in 1948. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
39. Did not grow in the States, so don't feel bad if you miss |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
65. Argentina? |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 04:04 PM Response to Reply #39 |
125. So where did you grow up? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 03:36 AM Response to Original message |
40. My first full memory is of sometime in the summer of 1959 |
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dg10348 (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 03:45 AM Response to Original message |
41. Another" I Like Ike" |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
63. I remember that, too. |
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CPMaz (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
42. Hmmm... |
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Debs (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 05:16 AM Response to Original message |
44. Cuban missile crisis |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
45. The Watergate scandal. |
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Minnesota Libra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 05:28 AM Response to Original message |
46. I was in high school setting in class when the principle came in and...... |
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mrgorth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
47. My mom telling me she was voting for Ford |
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Connie_Corleone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
48. The Carter-Reagan Debate |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:35 PM Response to Reply #48 |
143. LOL I like that excuse |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
49. Looking at the pictures of the Nixons, their reactions to Nixon's |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
50. Bill Clinton's first inaugural. n/t |
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drthais (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
51. 6th grade - cover of a Weekly Reader...1968 |
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1932 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
52. ...when my white nursery school teacher reprimanded her black teacher's |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
53. Age 3, going with Grandad to the state capitol |
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bennywhale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
54. Miners Strike Britain 1985. i couldn't understand why the police |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:23 PM Response to Reply #54 |
66. one of my NI friends hates Thatcher and he was not even alive |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
55. My first "in the news" memory is John Lennon being shot... |
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one_true_leroy (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
56. Oliver North and Iran Contra... |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
57. Kennedy getting shot |
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donsu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
58. WWII |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
59. My Mom thought George Wallace was brilliant; I remember her |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:27 PM Response to Reply #59 |
67. I am about half way through the Politics of Rage about Wallace... |
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LA lady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:40 PM Response to Reply #67 |
97. sad death |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 06:42 PM Response to Reply #97 |
103. She passed away from cancer right? |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
60. I lived in a suburb that was mostly for Nixon in '72. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
61. "You sir are no Jack Kennedy!" |
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bklyncowgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
62. Kennedy giving a press conference, Cuban Missle Crisis, Assassination |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
64. My dad shaking his fist at the tv and cussing Nixon |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 10:16 PM Response to Reply #64 |
72. I have a similiar memory of my Dad |
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GymGeekAus (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
68. Political Memory.... |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 08:56 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. And it is a good one! |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
70. Kennedy Nixon Debates on TV - and then Kennedy's Inaugeration Speech |
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NJ Democrats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
71. 1996 Election |
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Progressive4Life (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
73. Presidential election 1980 |
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Mikimouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
74. My fifth-grade class (in Texas) applauding that... |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 12:04 AM Response to Reply #74 |
79. ... |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
75. McArthur being fired, and the McCarthy hearings. The hearings |
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Vadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
76. "I like Ike" was the first campaign slogan that I remember.... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 04:19 PM Response to Reply #76 |
100. "Adelaide"???? |
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Fabio (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-05-06 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
78. Desert One. |
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thatsrightimirish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
80. Going to see |
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wiley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
82. The announcement in grade school that Nixon had beaten Humphrey |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
84. Kennedy Election - My Mom Waited Until Morning |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
85. Eisenhower re-election, My grandmother had a button with a string |
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jumptheshadow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
86. Kennedy running for President |
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coffeenap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
87. Going out of the main door of our elementary school for the first |
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POAS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
88. On our first TV in 1956 saw |
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Sisaruus (703 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
89. Wrestling in the dirt, at age 8, over Kennedy-Nixon race |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
90. Democratic picnic McNears Beach, Marin County, California 1959 |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
91. Vauge memory: The Berlin Wall coming down |
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indie_voter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
92. Nixon resigning in 1974. I was 10. n/t |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
93. Seeing Reagan on TV when I was five and feeling nauseous. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
95. Seeing Ford on TV. n/t |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
96. I must have been about 4......I was at a friend's house; a woman friend |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:45 PM Response to Reply #96 |
98. What a purely vile word ...... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 04:28 PM Response to Reply #98 |
101. Yes, vile. In Texas where I grew up (and left at age 17 for college |
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Homer Wells (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
99. We had a mock election in my Junior High |
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lwcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
102. I remember my parents had a lot of Kennedy-Johnson stuff in the house |
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ArnoldLayne (871 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
104. In 1964 when I was 7 years old and I remember telling kids |
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JohnLocke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 07:13 PM Response to Reply #104 |
106. Bwhaha! |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:31 PM Response to Reply #104 |
142. Maybe we should try that in '08 |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
105. "Iron Curtain" |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
107. Election returns in Carter vs. Reagan |
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Radio_Guy (875 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
108. I was six when Ike was elected |
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leyton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
109. Newt Gingrich, in a political cartoon. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
110. Two real, real early memories |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
111. I remember the assasination.... |
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Tinksrival (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
112. Fifth grade |
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Hidden Stillness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
113. Kennedy Era |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
114. JFK assassination and the days following, I was really pissed... |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-06-06 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
115. Nixon's resignation speech. I was a little kid. |
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nickinSTL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
118. probably my mom voting in 1976 - for Carter... |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 03:41 AM Response to Original message |
119. 1st Grade- Carter vs. Ford |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
120. Kennedy's assassination. |
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Tiggeroshii (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
121. The Bush Clinton race where I wondered where the horses were.. |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
122. Almost dying in a nuclear war |
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Don Claybrook (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
123. Carter-Ford Debate, 1976, San Francisco |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
124. My father thrusting a "Hubert Humphrey" sign into our front |
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Carbon Tiger (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
126. Mine |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
127. Ed Muskie & me |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
128. My father didn't like Ike. |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 07:06 PM Response to Reply #128 |
130. Truman did not like him either. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:24 PM Response to Reply #128 |
139. Remember this ad by any chance? |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-08-06 05:18 PM Response to Reply #139 |
146. Don't recall that ad |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
129. Kennedy's assassination |
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Bariztr (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
131. Democratic National Convention 1976 |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
132. Iran hostages and Raygun getting elected |
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ihelpu2see (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
133. Nixon impression for my family at age 3-4 with the "V" for victory pose. |
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AllieB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
134. Nixon resigning |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
135. army McCarthy hearings |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
136. Dad took me into the voting booth with him in 1992 |
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dajoki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
137. JFK's Inauguration... |
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MassLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
138. JFK assassination |
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peacetheonlyway (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
140. late night discussions with my father in the kitchen |
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mwooldri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-07-06 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
141. Falkland Islands Conflict, Margaret Thatcher vs Michael Foot. |
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APPLE314 (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-08-06 05:43 AM Response to Original message |
145. Passing money to the police from a brothel for a judge's election campaign |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-08-06 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
147. "Watergate" headlines. |
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