I can remember another political slogan:

Nixon's the One!

And, because of that, I'll always remember a bumper sticker I saw years ago:

Nixon - He Was the One in '68
He'll be a Bigger One in '72!

Signor V.

Lets not forget:

Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You.

I'm about 90 posts late in this thread but Jimmy Carter was president when I was born. Not sure if you're still interested TIS or anyone else.

Hi Bibble,

Let's see, are you the only one who said Carter? I don't feel like checking all the posts. Another youngster.


Vitelli,

You didn't mention who was President when you were born? Could you possibly be the Truman era as well?

SC, I remember the "Dick" Nixon jokes/slogans. The name was so easy to work with. Remember all the comics (Rich Little comes to mind) who'd imitate him??

TIS

I was born early in the Eisenhower admistration.

Here's another bumper sticker I saw:

McGovern Can't Lick Our Dick!

Now, as far as comics and impressionists having a field day with Nixon, the one I thought was the best was David Frye. (Remember his I Am the President album?)

Signor V.

Truman was from Missouri -- Independence to be specific, a suburb of Kansas City just north of the city where I live.

I try to hit Dixon's at least once a month and this is the second President's Day in a row that I have eaten there so I guess it is a tradition

I got my chili the way Truman preferered -- over three tamales. I told the waitress (who probably served Truman himself) that I should get the President Day discount in honor of their favorite son and sure enough got my meal (and daughters) free. Of course, I tipped her well!

TB moves away and he gets brave?

But not to worry. It's not like Geoff would ban him.

Eisenhower.

Is this another sneaky way to find out our ages?

Ha ha!! I see your point Lavinia, but trust me, I didn't even think of how it would "appear" by asking this question.

TIS

That was certainly a turbulent political time. It is certainly best known for the assassination of RFK in June and the police violence against the anti-war demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which sparked one of my favorite Daleyisms, "The police aren't here to create disorder; they're here to preserve it."

I dont know who ran with Stevenson in 52, but in 56 it was Kefauver (referred to by Hyman Roth in GFII). To my knowledge there was never anything Stevenson did that brought any scandal on him while he was in office. Apparently JFK disliked him and he resisted pressure to name him Secretary of State. Instead he sent him to be Ambassador to the UN which Stevenson considered beneath his station, but he served anyway.

Shortly after he retired, he dropped dead on a London street of a massive heart attack. Supposedly he was having an affair with Katherine Graham of the Washington Post at the time.

I was just kidding, TIS. My only regret is that I missed Kennedy's presidency, he was my younger days' hero.

Stevenson's running mate in '52 was Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama.

JFK and Stevenson disliked and distrusted each other intensely. Stevenson told JFK he wouldn't run for the Dem nomination in '60, but he didn't discourage his followers from attempting to "draft" him. A last-minute demonstration for Stevenson on the convention floor in LA nearly derailed JFK's nomination. JFK told him, "I like you, Adlai. But if you get in my way, I'm just going to have to s**t all over you."

After the election, liberals, who distrusted JFK, demanded that he name Stevenson Secretary of State. Since Stevenson was far better known and respected around the world than JFK at that point, he could easily have depositioned his President. So JFK named him UN Ambassador and elevated the post to "Cabinet rank." This was a great political ploy on JFK's part: Liberals were ecstatic because they regarded the UN as the Taj Mahal of international affairs. But as Ambassador, Stevenson had no real policymaking power--his job was to read speeches written for him by State Dept. and White House functionaries. "Cabinet rank" was meaningless, too: he was still subordinate to Secretary of State Dean Rusk; and JFK seldom held Cabinet meetings anyway and never discussed anything important at them.

JFK humiliated Stevenson more than once. During the Bay of Pigs brouhaha, JFK neglected to tell Stevenson that the clapped-out WWII bombers that hit Cuban airfields before the invasion were flown by CIA operatives. So Stevenson unknowingly spread the lie at the UN that they were flown by "Cuban patriots," and his prestige took a huge nosedive. During the missile crisis, Stevenson repeatedly demanded proof that JFK prove to him that the Soviet missiles in Cuba were really offensive, not defensive, units.

After the crisis was over, JFK told favored newsmen "off the record" that Stevenson had proposed trading American Jupiter missiles in Turkey for the Soviet missiles in Cuba; when in fact Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had made that proposal.

The differences twixt JFK and Stevenson were personal, too. JFK, a gold-medal womanizer, constantly resented Stevenson for the attraction he held for young, good-looking women. JFK could never accept that balding, paunchy, middle-aged Stevenson could be almost as much a Lothario as he was.

[quote=Turnbull '60, but he didn't discourage his followers from attempting to "draft" him. A last-minute demonstration for Stevenson on the convention floor in LA nearly derailed JFK's nomination. [/quote]


I remember that "draft" Stevenson moment watching the 60 convention on television. I believe none other than Eleanor Roosevelt placed his name in nomination, and suddenly the floor was filled with "Stevenson" placards, etc. This of course when nominating conventions actually meant something and this was the left wing of the party using its last gasp to stop JFK.


It is correct that JFK rarely had cabinet meetings. Other than
Robert MacNamara and rarely Rusk, he relied on his inner circle of White House advisers, and his brother (who was in the cabinet).

I also seem to recall that the republicans tried to smear Stevenson by alleging he was a homosexual.

To say nothing of the fact that Stevenson walked around with holes in his shoes.

She was the #1 JFK doubter in the Democratic Party. After the nomination, JFK spent days sucking up to her to get her endorsement. Of course, the fact that the GOP nominated Nixon was the decisive factor--Eleanor hated him even more than JFK.

I am convinced that he would have won the Presidency. Yes, America would have taken a whole new direction. Of course, no telling if that woul dhave been good or bad.

December 1970 - I'm not sure who was president when I was born. Was it Johnson or Nixon? I really don't know! The first one I remember on TV was Nixon though.

Nixon won the '68 election, so he took office in January, '69.

Okay, SC. thank you.

Ronald Reagen here...

I was born August '70 so it would have been Nixon?
Is that right?

Yes indeed.

I was a Reagan kid.......

Thank you Klydon