Whose Baby Are You?

[poliphilo]

Do you know who was President/Prime Minister the year you were born- without looking it up? Apparently Matt Drudge doesn't. I was scornful until I tried to answer the question myself.

I guessed Eisenhower/Churchill. Wrong. I was a toddler when Eisenhower and Churchill came in. The answer is Truman/Attlee.

I'm pleasantly surprised. I idolise the post-war Labour Government (which gave us the Welfare State) and I don't like Churchill (whose post-war administration was the vanity project of a senile old man.) I'd far rather be a post-war Labour baby than a Churchill baby.

Yay- Attlee!

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

As with driving, there's a sort of blind spot just behind you - too long ago to remember, too recent to be taught as history.

I didn't know this, either - the earliest Prime Minister I can remember is Macmillan, but by definition that's too late to be the answer to your question (like you, I'm Truman / Attlee, though Attlee only by a matter of months). I was born on the National Health, and always assumed I'd die on it...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it- a blind spot.

I remember having a scrapbook into which I'd pasted a cartoon of Churchill, Stalin and Truman. I guess that's my earliest political memory.