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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:14 PM Original message |
As a child, what was the first political news bit that you heard |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Bobby Kennedy's Assassination... |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
55. I remember my parent watching the news that day. I remember |
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wordpix2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
214. John Kennedy's assassination when I was 10 y.o. in class at school |
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Justice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
229. Watching Bobby's Kennedy's funeral, procession |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. I asked my dad why they called Stevenson an "egghead" |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. 1956-The Hungarian Revolution |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
143. That, and my parents talking about McCarthy somebody in |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. The Fall of Saigon |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
215. Yes, that was it for me too |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 11:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
248. Same here. |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. My grandfather arguing for Adali |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. God Bless Him! |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #21 |
181. Thanks! |
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Totally Committed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
160. My grandfather was for Adlai, too! |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:17 PM Response to Reply #160 |
182. Most everyone on that side of the family was Democrats |
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Totally Committed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:23 PM Response to Reply #182 |
185. My grandfather (A Sicilian immigrant) lived and died a Democrat |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 01:54 PM Response to Reply #185 |
189. Interesting family history, TC |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. Kennedy Assassination |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. I was five |
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57_TomCat (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. This nails it for me as well. N/T |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. I was in first grade. |
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MissWaverly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
48. I was 10, I was home with the flu, my sister came home |
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SnohoDem (915 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
109. Yep, |
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riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
118. Kennedy for me too. I remember my oldest sister sobbing and running from |
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Itchinjim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
125. Me too, I was four years old. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
205. I was three. This is my first memory of anything political |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hmmm |
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Dinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. JFK Assassination - I Was 3 Years Old |
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MazeRat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Same here but I was 5. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:36 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. 5 here also. n/t |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
115. another 5 year old here |
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dog_lovin_dem (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:49 PM Response to Reply #115 |
147. Add another 5 year-old. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Ditto. I was 4. eom |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
47. I was about 9 months old. |
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wellstone dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
59. I was in second grade |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
70. Same -- I was 6. |
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MassLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
136. Also JFK--also 3 |
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beltanefauve (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 03:00 AM Response to Reply #136 |
153. Also from Mass |
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AtomicKitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 05:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
156. I was 9. |
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datadiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. That John F. Kennedy would win the election |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
178. I remember the Kennedy/Nixon election too. |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:18 PM Response to Reply #178 |
183. LOL - I had the same experience 30 years later |
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Ediacara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
10. A girl? |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Raygun was shot, 1981. n/t |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
87. That's my second political experience ... (Reagan being shot) |
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stranger81 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #11 |
236. also my first . . . I was in kindergarten and I think I cried . . . [n/t] |
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Mojambo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. Something about nuclear annihilation |
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Cameron27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. The Kennedy/Nixon televised debates |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. Death of FDR |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
261. I was 4 when FDR died (and other political memories) |
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Redbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. Watergate hearings at age 8 |
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Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:38 PM Response to Reply #16 |
43. Same here |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:49 AM Response to Reply #16 |
155. Same here. |
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Sapere aude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. Sputnik was really big in my time. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
18. Seasame Street wasn't on because Nixon was in trouble. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
19. Viet Nam... |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. Watergate |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:41 PM Response to Reply #20 |
141. This is my earliest political memory, too. |
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cyclezealot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
23. I was never a kid |
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Hav (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
24. . |
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tech3149 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. Eisenhowers farwell speech |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
77. First thing I remember as well. Then my mom took us to see Nixon |
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tenshi816 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. Me too. |
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tulsakatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:02 PM Response to Reply #28 |
61. I remember.......... |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
29. Berlin Wall coming down. |
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blue neen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. I'm with you. |
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nosillies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. I was being born while Nixon was giving his resignation speech |
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mentalsolstice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
32. MLK & RFK |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. During the Vietnam war... |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
34. JFK's assasination |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
35. The moon landing. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
36. Korean War |
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nickyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
37. Yeah, Sputnik, 1958? And then later, when Khrushchev banged his |
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cadmium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 05:23 AM Response to Reply #37 |
226. a few yrs later |
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POAS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
39. 1952, Eisenhower |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. I guess mine would be the 1972 election. |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:53 PM Response to Reply #41 |
54. Me too. n/t |
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tulsakatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
42. I remember when JFK ran for President |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
44. I had to eat my food because children were starving in CHINA! |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:01 PM Response to Reply #44 |
60. Ha, same here... I said "The kids in China can have my liver." |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
45. I remember |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
46. The energy crisis in the 70s... |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:54 PM Response to Reply #46 |
106. Yep that and the Hostages in Lebanon |
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Maccagirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
49. Bay of Pigs here as well. |
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OXM (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
50. I was four years old, in Israel |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:14 PM Response to Reply #50 |
67. I found an old newspaper article from 1967 or 1968 |
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OXM (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:13 AM Response to Reply #67 |
224. Begin |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 01:10 PM Response to Reply #224 |
253. English too? |
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OXM (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 04:57 PM Response to Reply #253 |
259. Here it is: |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-17-06 11:39 AM Response to Reply #259 |
268. Wow, that's....what an eye opener! Thanks. |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
51. A local election-- |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:19 PM Response to Reply #51 |
184. What a cool school! |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 01:48 PM Response to Reply #184 |
188. Thank you--I had no idea at the time... |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 02:03 PM Response to Reply #188 |
191. I went to 13 different schools between K-12 |
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bliss_eternal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 03:39 PM Response to Reply #191 |
193. Thank you for starting this thread, Sequoia...! |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:30 PM Response to Reply #193 |
198. It takes a special person to teach in a two room schoolhouse |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #193 |
254. You're welcome. |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
52. Watergate was a turning pt in my life. I was a young kid at |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
53. Re-election of tricky Dick |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
56. I'd have to say Kennedy's election... |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
57. My dad let me pull the levers to vote for Kennedy. I was five, |
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mrreowwr_kittty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
58. Watergate when I was about 6. |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
62. The '72 election - Mom brought me down to the county Dem headquarters |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:16 PM Response to Reply #62 |
69. Aren't you the little cutie pie. |
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Cooley Hurd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:29 PM Response to Reply #69 |
76. Out of all the pics of me as a child, I'm most proud of that one... |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
63. Hmm, outside of assassinations and protests in the US, I'd say the Russian |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
64. When Reagan fired my dad - August 5, 1981 |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:49 PM Response to Reply #64 |
102. FUCK Reagan and what he did to the ATC. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
65. My really early political memories are mostly about education |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:40 PM Response to Reply #65 |
80. LOL! "bribe the soldiers" |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
66. I don't remember the JFK assassination itself but |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
68. Pearl Harbor was bombed. n/t |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
71. Maybe not exacly political |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
72. The Communist Coup in Czecholovakia |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
73. I remember the Iran hostage crisis |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:16 PM Response to Reply #73 |
93. The Hostage Crisis was mine too. I was about 7 ... |
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Sweet Freedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 06:54 PM Response to Reply #73 |
202. Same here |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
74. My 2d birthday - JFK killed |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:51 PM Response to Reply #74 |
83. What! Two years old! |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:28 PM Response to Reply #83 |
96. [EXPLETIVE DELETED] |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
75. FDR's funeral. I was 5 years old and can remember my mother |
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cmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:31 PM Response to Reply #75 |
98. I remember that too. |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
78. That I was aware of as political? |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
79. The 1960 Republican convention when Henry Cabot Lodge was picked |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
81. Jeez...where is my generation? My first was Gulf War I. I remember being |
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ktowntennesseedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
82. Commercials in '72 by "Democrats for Nixon" |
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Totally Committed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
84. I remember hearing that Adlai Stevenson had just lost the election |
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cool user name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
85. I think it was the Iran Hostage Crisis ... |
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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
86. The Iran hostages |
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hsher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
88. The moon landing |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:09 PM Response to Reply #88 |
137. This is my earliest momentous memory. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
89. I remember Ike and his Inaugural Parade |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
90. Army McCarthy Hearings... |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:59 PM Response to Reply #90 |
130. I remember that too, anna |
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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
91. Martin Luther King assassination. |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
92. The famous photo of the East German guard leaping the barbed wire fence |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:28 PM Response to Reply #92 |
127. An incredible picture. n/t |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
94. Fifty Six - The Year to Fix ........ |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
95. JFK versus Nixon |
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cmd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
97. Dad joined the Navy shortly after I was born. |
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bonito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
99. It was the Thresher |
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devinsgram (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
100. The election Ike Eisenhaur. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
101. The assasination of Anwar Sadat left me stunned for some reason. |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:00 PM Response to Reply #101 |
124. I was in my twenties, but I remember the man who orchestrated the |
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trashcanistanista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
103. Second Grade |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
104. jfk assassination. 6 years old. i'll never forget it. |
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hopein08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
105. Operation Desert Storm... |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
107. Probably integration in southern schools |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 08:36 AM Response to Reply #107 |
169. New York City school integration and "beat up niggers day" |
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izzybeans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
108. Reagan's complicity with Iran-Contra |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
110. Richard Nixon resigning. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
111. The atomic bomb in Japan |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
112. US involvement in Nicaragua and Panama |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
113. Eisenhower as president |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
114. Dallas, November 1963 |
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elfin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
116. Stalin's death - am I the only geezer here? |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:45 AM Response to Reply #116 |
165. I posted the same event before I read your post. I heard it on |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:19 AM Response to Reply #116 |
173. Stalin's death is probably my earliest memory |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:37 PM Response to Reply #116 |
262. same age -- I remember when Stalin died it was like a gigantic weight |
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Pab Sungenis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
117. The first I remember being conscious of was the 1976 election. |
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laylah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
119. I Like Ike...LOL...n/t |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
120. I have a confession. I was in 1st and 2nd grade during "duck and cover" |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
121. Kennedy's announcement on October 22nd, 1962 that |
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BleedingHeartPatriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
122. K & R, an amazing thread! |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
123. Just want to say to Sequoia -- Great Thread!!! |
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ms liberty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
126. Kennedy assassination - I was 4 years 5 months old... |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
128. Dewey at the convention |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:43 PM Response to Reply #128 |
263. I remember the fall of Dien Bien Phu mostly b/c of a teacher |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:48 PM Response to Reply #263 |
265. in 62 when I was in Germany I met a US soldier on the Rhein trip boat |
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No Exit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
129. Small town in Minnesota--saw some pictures of "negroes" on TV |
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a kennedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
131. Me too, I was 13 and it came over our school intercom that the |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
132. Watergate |
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peace13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
133. JFK |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
134. I was 7 when JFK beat Nixon |
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Lucy (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
135. The Kennedy/Nixon debates |
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Fabio (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
138. Desert One |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
139. Election of 1972. |
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powergirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
140. NIXON'S RESIGNATION |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 04:43 PM Response to Reply #140 |
257. me, too. Have you heard the James Taylor song about that |
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Lorax (307 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
142. Watergate |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
144. Gulf War I |
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AZBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
145. Reagan being shot - I went to school with some cabinet members' children |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-13-06 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
146. I remember seeing Eisenhower on TV, but |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:05 AM Response to Reply #146 |
148. Let me add that my real political awakening was when MLK led a march |
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mohinoaklawnillinois (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:16 AM Response to Reply #146 |
149. LOL, I remember the saying the same thing in 1960 and wearing a |
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Cameron27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:03 PM Response to Reply #149 |
179. Oh yes, I remember those buttons too! |
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Oak2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:57 PM Response to Reply #149 |
187. Southwest side? We lived at 52nd and Kedzie. |
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CitySky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
150. Carter/Reagan election |
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gr8dane_daddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
151. I remember the Iran hostages being released after reagan |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 02:57 AM Response to Original message |
152. my first awareness of politics came as I watched the 1956 . . . |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 03:46 AM Response to Original message |
154. The Kennedy/Nixon Television Debates |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 06:14 AM Response to Original message |
157. I remember Ike's first election, mainly because my parents |
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marigold20 (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:18 PM Response to Reply #157 |
204. I Like Ike! |
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bklyncowgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
158. Cuban Missile Crisis |
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cleveramerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
159. 49 states for Nixon |
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conning (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
161. Truman beating Dewey |
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lynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:18 AM Response to Original message |
162. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - But I didn't realize it at the time - |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
163. The Kennedy/Nixon debates |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
164. They broke into TV and said that "General Josef Stalin is |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
166. The Cuban Missle Crisis |
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LizW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
167. Caroline Kennedy had a pony. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
168. "If President Johnson doesn't win, it's back to slavery ..." |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:34 AM Response to Reply #168 |
177. Wow. Just the opposite of |
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Erechtheides (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
170. Iran-Contra; first grade |
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BillORightsMan (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:25 AM Response to Reply #170 |
217. iran-contra refresher |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
171. Seeing the 1956 conventions on TV and wondering what all those |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
172. John Kennedy's killing |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
174. My mother coming home from voting in 1964 |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
175. 1960: Rumors That JFK Would Take Orders From The Vatican |
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chieftain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
176. The 1956 Convention when JFK lost the bid for VP |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:59 PM Response to Reply #176 |
266. I was fascinated by Kennedy at the 56 convention |
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Keefer (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
180. Kennedy assassination here too... |
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Forrest Greene (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
186. There Wasn't A Specific Event |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
190. Anwar Sadat assassinated |
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OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:40 PM Response to Reply #190 |
206. Very sad |
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BillORightsMan (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:40 AM Response to Reply #190 |
220. Anwar Sadat assasination |
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Dragonbreathp9d (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
192. Hearing of Whitewater |
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Rocknrule (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
194. The whole "videogame violence" thing |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
195. The Carter-Reagan election |
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greiner3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
196. Letting out of school early for no reason; |
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rep the dems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
197. Probably my dad telling me that Clinton was going to win in 1996 |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:25 AM Response to Reply #197 |
218. hi youngin! |
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rep the dems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 03:15 PM Response to Reply #218 |
239. I knew very little about politics at the time, but I was glad that |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
199. Not exactly a 'bit' |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
200. Hearing that the first gulf war was over. |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
201. Dr. King's assignation |
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dsweet (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
203. Phil Gramm |
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citizen snips (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
207. Bill Clinton |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
208. My 3rd grade teacher brought in her own TV |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
209. Cuban Missile Crisis |
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windbreeze (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
210. When FDR died... |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
211. Vietnam ... |
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windy252 (742 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
212. I remember vaguely |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-14-06 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
213. Kennedy pulling it out over Nixon in 1960, |
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Thirtieschild (978 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
216. Roosevelt died & no one was sure who was vice president |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:27 AM Response to Reply #216 |
219. aw... |
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leanin_green (823 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
221. The JFK assasination when I was 5. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:05 AM Response to Reply #221 |
223. I was 6 but don't remember it |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:54 AM Response to Reply #221 |
232. I was 6 - in my 2nd grade classroom (see below) |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
222. Enoch Powell's Rivers of Red racist speech in 1968 |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 02:47 AM Response to Reply #222 |
225. I also remember Enoch Powell |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #225 |
240. my English gramdparents thought he was "rubbish" |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 06:20 AM Response to Reply #240 |
244. Your grandparents were right! |
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mohinoaklawnillinois (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 10:56 AM Response to Reply #225 |
245. Enoch Powell was the UUP MP that represented my husband's and |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
227. 9-11 |
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GOPS Worst Fear (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
228. Sen. Everett Dirkson gets caught with shoe boxes Full of $$$$$ |
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mohinoaklawnillinois (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 10:59 AM Response to Reply #228 |
247. It wasn't Everett Dirksen that got caught with the shoe boxes |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 07:47 PM Response to Reply #247 |
264. Powell wasn't caught with the money. He was dead when they found it. ;) |
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mohinoaklawnillinois (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-17-06 09:09 AM Response to Reply #264 |
267. You're right, I forgot that detail. I stand corrected... |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
230. Kruschev banging his shoe on the podium... |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
231. I was sitting in my 2nd grade classroom when it came over the |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
233. Watergate was my political awakening. I remember running into |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
234. Blah blah blah Vietnam war blah blah Vietnam blah Vietman war blah... |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
235. Johnson swearing-in on the plane, after Kennedy assassination |
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demwing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
237. Watergate |
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misternormal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
238. When I heard.... |
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Johnny Noshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
241. The Cuban Missile Crisis |
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fortyfeetunder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
242. Two things as a tyke |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-15-06 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
243. News? |
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Steely_Dan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
246. JFK's Death and Johnson's Commercial |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #246 |
255. Look here: |
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El Fuego (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
249. Watergate. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
250. Berlin Wall coming down (NM) |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-16-06 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
251. Reagan: "This may be the generation that sees Armageddon." |
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252. 4th grade, Nixon finally negotiating end of fighting in South Vietnam |
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256. Clinton won in '92 but it was vague |
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258. The debate between Nixon and Kennedy (1960) |
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260. I can vaguely remember most of the big events |
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