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

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I was wrong on each one! It was Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was president when I was born, and he only resigned the year after. Childers was long dead at that point. Apparently, Wilson was UK prime minister. And Gerald Ford was US president, not for long though. Who are these people? Why have I never heard of them?

In my defence, there was a lot of political turmoil in the seventies. But STILL. I am crap. Crap.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, no this is emerging as a pattern. And it's obvious really, how can you remember what was going on when you were a baby? And why should you?