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

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Typical Ammurican. I know it was Truman -- I was born in 1948 and I actually remember Election Night 1952, sitting on a hassock listening to the election results on the radio because there wasn't any TV in our area yet.

But I haven't got a clue who was Prime Minister in 1948. The first one whose name I recall from the news is MacMillan, although Churchill was always around as the grand but irascible old man.

*google*google*google* Oh, it's Atlee. Who the heck was Atlee? Oh, I'm soooo provincial...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Attlee was head of the Labour government that won the post-war election- for my money the best government of the century. He and his team more or less created the Welfare State, National Health Service etc.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I remember, as a girl in Kansas, listening to the Democratic and Republican conventions on television. I was so thrilled. I remember the wonderful keynote address of Bob Clement (the older one). I thought the entire process was thrilling.