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]

No, 'twas us shot him, if by "us" you mean "the British" and not "the reading public", in which case I am included in said "us". He was shot by a Free State firing squad, ostensibly for the possession of firearms, but more likely because he was suspected of being allied to the anti-Treaty Republican side in the Civil War. Also, of course, because he had made enemies. More here: this is an American site, but it seems reasonably well-informed.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And here was I bearing the guilt of his demise on my shoulders all these years.

Thanks for the link. I'd best go educate myself.