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

1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

According to my research... because I cheat... your Prime Minister was Lord Attlee about whom I know very little, I'm sorry for that! I already knew that the president then was "Give 'em Hell* Harry Truman as he is my all time favorite president.

I know you think that he is forgettable but I loved Jimmy Carter, and I still do. He's a good man without being so damned PUSHY or a b****** who pretends to be perfect. ;-)

Re: 1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I just read a bit about Clement Attlee. It appears that he was a very good prime minister!

Re: 1947

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Unshowy, easily overlooked, even dull- but a man of great achievement.

Re: 1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I believe I like him!

Re: 1947

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My conscience smites me in regard to Jimmy Carter. Yes, he is a good man- and that's not something that can be said about many world leaders.

Attlee was a quiet, uncharismatic little man, but he presided over what I consider the greatest government of the 20th century.

Re: 1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

If all the world leaders were like Jimmy Carter I believe that there would be no war... but we have to count Osama ben Lauden as a leader...
We would build houses for the needy and forgive crazy brothers!

Re: 1947

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The problem was that Jimmy is just too good for this mucky world of ours.

Re: 1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

You are probably right there.

I just read that there were more explosions in London! THAT IS AWFUL!

You would think that since there are far more of us who are NOT terrorists that it would be possible for all of us to track them down and get them stopped...
Seems not.

Re: 1947

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

As the picture becomes clearer it's looking as if this was an attack that went badly wrong (from the bombers' point of view.) The bombs didn't go off properly and the bombers will now be captured alive and interrogated- a terrific breakthrough for the police!

Re: 1947

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Oh well then.... YAY!!!
Lets hope that lots more of them become inept!