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

[zen-punk.livejournal.com]

Reagan, I beleive. '86. I gather that Thatcher was Prime Minister at the time, although I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said so. Even though my mother hates our current President Bush, she still thinks Reagan was our worst president.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think Reagan was smarter than Bush. Also he had style. And it was hard to dislike him personally, whatever one thought of his policies.

Yeah, Thatcher was PM in '86. She was in power for the whole of the 80s.