Who Was The Vice President When You Were Born?

[SPKrazy]

me, Lyndon Johnson

you?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. You do the math

:puke:

[SPKrazy]

7. Poor Girl

had too many repukes in office in your lifetime

actually we all have

:puke:

:hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. I knowwwwww

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Southpawkicker!

*Sob*

I don't know!

I do know that the President was Roosevelt........and it was 1943.

So the VP wasn't Truman.......

I got nothing.....:shrug:

:cry:

Nice to see you today, sweetie! :hug:

[SPKrazy]

4. John Nance Garner

:hug:

[Radical Activist]

16. Garner was only VP until 41

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Oh, really?

Who came after him?

I'll google it, and see......

My education continues!

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

28. Henry Wallace

He's an intersting guy. Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger campaign for him when he ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket in '48.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. You are a sweetheart!

You didn't have to look that up for me......

But you still did....:hug:

[CTyankee]

70. Wow, you're old, like me!

We liked Garner in Texas cuz he was one of ours. Mother did. Daddy didn't (he was a Republican).

[Radical Activist]

11. Henry Wallace

The closest America ever came to having a socialist President.

[liberalpragmatist]

137. Wallace wasn't a socialist, though

He had a lot of socialists and communists support his campaign because he believed the Soviet Union was essentially benign and that more could be gained through cooperation than confrontation. In terms of his ideology, however, Wallace remained a firm New Dealer and, in his own words, a Welfare Capitalist. He was, in fact, a Republican until picked for FDR's cabinet. Where he was ultra-liberal for the time were in his attitudes towards civil rights and social justice.

After his abortive 1948 campaign for president, Wallace left the Progressive Party he had founded, saying it had been taken over by Stalinists. In the early 1950s, he published a book called "Where I Was Wrong," where he repudiated many of his more conciliatory stands towards the Soviet Union saying he had been duped by Soviet propaganda and Potempkin villages during goodwill tours in the 1940s. And although I'm not sure if Wallace was aware of this, but his top foreign policy adviser, Laurence Duggan, the man he'd have likely selected to be his Secretary of State, had he become president in 1945 was later confirmed to be a Soviet spy (Duggan jumped to his death in '48 at the height of the Red Scare.)

For his part, Wallace never rejoined the Democratic Party, though he remained a liberal, if now a Cold Warrior. He endorsed Eisenhower for president in both '52 and '56 and died in the early 1960s, relatively forgotten, although in his retirement he made some vital contributions to chicken production.

[Radical Activist]

155. His views

were pretty close to socialism though. He was put on the ticket to appease the left and was taken off because he was drifting too far out into left field.

[trof]

142. Same here. Read this from wiki:

Politics hasn't changed much:
Wallace was raised as a Presbyterian, but left that denomination early in life. He spent most of his early life exploring other religious faiths and traditions. He eventually settled on Episcopalianism and converted to the Episcopal Church USA, though he continued to correspond with mystics and persons associated with alternative religions, including Russian Nicholas Roerich. During the 1940 presidential election, correspondence with Roerich fell into the hands of the Republicans, who threatened to reveal his beliefs until the Democrats threatened to release information about Republican candidate Wendell Wilkie's extra-marital affair. <1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace

[Radical Activist]

154. Wallace reminds me of Kucinich.

Both have very liberal, midwestern populist views on economic issues, combined with non-traditional new-age spiritualism.

[terrya]

3. Tricky Dick Nixon

Second term. Right after his whiny "Checkers" speech.

[hippywife]

5. Nixon. n/t

[Radical Activist]

6. Mondale

[KitchenWitch]

8. There was no VP when I was born.

[SPKrazy]

9. Oh?

how's that?

pre revolutionary war?

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

10. No. Born in early 1964

No VP was appointed after Kennedy was shot.

[SPKrazy]

14. Veepless!

;)

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

17. Indeed! Who knew that was what was missing in my life!

:D

[SPKrazy]

22. Oh, I'm Sure That's Not All

:rofl:

but it's a place to start your healing journey

[terip64]

168. Me too! I didn't know that. n/t

[liberalpragmatist]

139. Vice Presidential vacancies could only be filled after the 25th Amendment

Until the 25th Amendment in the late '60s (or was it early '70s?), there were no provisions for replacing the Vice President. So when a president died, the vice presidency went vacant. Although the next-in-line (I think it was the President-Pro-Tempore of the Senate?) was sometimes referred to as the "Acting Vice President" during these times.

Gerald Ford was the first appointed vice president; Nelson Rockefeller was the second.

[Seabiscuit]

95. Also Veepless. However...

Truman, not Johnson was President. No VP from April 12, 1945 until 1949. See below.

[Silver Swan]

153. No one

I was also born in the Truman vice presidentless era.

[Ptah]

13. We now enter the wayback machine

Alben W. Barkley

[KitchenWitch]

15. Ah HST!

[Ptah]

19. I'm so old that I

what?

sure, I like ice cream

[Radical Activist]

21. I had to look him up.

Interesting.

[Mz Pip]

45. Me, too

Never heard of him before today. :shrug:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Hand]

80. Thanks! Me too!

Saved me the trouble of googling it! :hi:

[Nicole]

23. Richard "I'm Not A Crook" Nixon

:P

[SPKrazy]

24. Poor Baby

now who was Nixon again?


:shrug:



:rofl:

[Nicole]

36. Nixon was

the crookedest non crook there was. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

39. He Was

a lot of things, but a non-crook he never was

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

25. Hubert Humphrey.

[SPKrazy]

27. Humph...

rey


:eyes:

:hi:

decider :applause:

[AlCzervik]

29. the decider is getting old.

[SPKrazy]

31. Huh?

you don't want to be the decider anymore?

or are you just saying you are getting old?

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

34. yes, i'm getting old.

blah.

[AlCzervik]

35. and of course i want to be the decider!! Harumphhhhhh!

it was decided long ago.

[SPKrazy]

38. Okay...

just wasn't sure what was getting old :shrug:

:pals:

:hi:

:hide:

[AlCzervik]

43. and my daughter just called me "Pumba" just because i let out a tiny oh so

lady like belch, if you were standing outside my house you could barely hear it. Damn kid.

[SPKrazy]

46. Pumba---BELCH....

:rofl:


want some grubs with that?

[AlCzervik]

50. excellent with beer.

i have some really great beer burps, that is something i do well.

[SPKrazy]

53. Beer And Grubs...Gulp

yum

:crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

48. Hakuna Matata!

:silly:

[SPKrazy]

51. No Worries

for the rest of my days

:crazy:

bet you've seen it a few times eh?

:rofl:

I've seen it 2135 times, then lost count :rofl:

;)

[AlCzervik]

54. me too, that and Muppet's treasure island, my husband and i can do all

the dialog and the singing parts. I think that movie was on a loop at my house from the time my daughter was 2 until the age of 3.

[SPKrazy]

60. Got Lucky On That One

Nemo as KW said, is one other one I've seen a ton of times

Cars

Lion King 1 1/2

Lion King 2

Toy Story 1 & 2

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

61. i love Toy Story, my favorite part is when Buzz is having tea.

"I am Mrs. Nesbit!"

[SPKrazy]

TS 2

I like it when Buzz is fighting his "father"

shades of Star Wars

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

68. that was hilarious! i miss really fun kids movies, not so many are coming out now

and now daughter is 12 so she's not all excited about them anymore.

[SPKrazy]

69. Oh, Too Bad...

for both me and no good movies coming out, and you who's daughter won't want to see them anyhow

:shrug:

grow up too fast

[AlCzervik]

72. yeah and i guess thats why i'm feeling kind of old.

i really miss the days of a new kids movie opening and her all "Mom can we go, canwecanwecanwe huh, can we go?"

[SPKrazy]

75. Ahhhhh

:hug:

I know, it's hard...

[KitchenWitch]

55. I have actually seen "Finding Nemo" more than "The Lion King"

"Finding Nemo" was my daughter's neb movie.

To this day she LOVES Bobby Darin.

[KitchenWitch]

40. Finer men than Humphrey are exceedingly rare.

[SPKrazy]

41. Ahhh, Just Because He's From Minnesota

don't get all high and mighty on us!

:P

[KitchenWitch]

47. Minnesota has a fine tradition of progressive Senators

Which has been sadly broken by Norm "the mealy mouthed carpetbagger turncoat" Coleman.

[SPKrazy]

49. Well, That's True

Minnesota traditionally was one of the more progressive states

although the whole HMO experiment that started there has not gone well... there or anywhere else for that matter.

:eyes:

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

52. Yes, I remember the beginning of the Death Management Organization!

My family was one of the members of one of the first ones in the country.

Evil, just evil.

[SPKrazy]

57. Who's Bright Idea Was That?

and why did it originate in Minnesota?

I remember learning about them back in the 80's in grad school, people thought they were so "progressive", but in reality they are nothing but a way to squeeze the insured, and the provider at the same time and make money off both of them.

:crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

62. I am not sure.

Group Health was the HMOs name - we called it Group Death.

Someone somewhere thought it was a good idea for accountants to start practicing medicine and medical doctors to practice accountancy. All it ever seemed to do was make the CEOs of the HMOs exceedingly rich.

[SPKrazy]

67. Stockholders too

doctors not as rich

patients dead and dying

destroyed the health care system as a relationship between provider and patient, instead it is at best now a triangle of patient-mangled care-provider

:eyes:

[sbj405]

26. Nelson Rockefeller.

[GenDem]

30. Richard M Nixon

[Boogie]

32. Schuyler Colfax

[KitchenWitch]

42. Uh huh!

I believe you too!

[Warren Peace]

33. Al Gore,

who was cheated out of his presidency. :nuke:

[KitchenWitch]

44. Welcome to DU!

I love to see the young people on here!

:hi:

[Warren Peace]

77. Thanks!

I feel very welcome since people are being so kind. :pals:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

74. Dude, I got Quayle.

Welcome, fellow youngling.

:hi:

[Warren Peace]

76. thanks!

young people rock :7 ......so do old people... :hide:

[otherlander]

122. Another young person!

:hi:

Quayle was veep when I was born, same as WIMR, but I remain convinced that I was exiled from the 60's. Oh, and...

WELCOME!!!

[Warren Peace]

141. thank you, otherlander.

I can't believe how many people are welcoming me here! :9 Three doesn't seem like alot, but on most forums no one welcomes me. :(

by the way, I love your sig ( if that's what it is ) with the cute guys.

[otherlander]

158. Thanks, but...

they're not my sig, just the welcome crew. ^_^

[philosophie_en_rose]

37. Mondale, but just barely.

[alarimer]

56. Hubert H. Humphrey

I had to look it up.

[SPKrazy]

58. Johnson Baby eh?

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

66. I was a Johnson baby too!

But I was veepless.

I have been deprived!

:cry:

[billyskank]

59. Dunno. Who was Ford's Veep?

That guy.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

63. Nelson Rockefeller

[SPKrazy]

64. Rockefeller,

Nelson that is

:hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

65. Vice President Walter Mondale

[CatholicEdHead]

71. Nelson Rockerfeller

[WritingIsMyReligion]

73. Quayle, under Poppy *. (1991)

:eyes:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

78. Walter Mondale.

[SPKrazy]

86. But A Child...

seems like yesterday

:cry:

now I feel really old

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

94. Damn skippy, Gramps!

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

98. Mebbe "Gramps" Will Take Ya Fishin'

down at the creek sometime sonny

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

100. Don't forget your dentures.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

101. I'll Get Ya Some Minnows

fer bait

don't have dentures, just like to gum my food sonny

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

102. I'll get some applesauce for you.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

106. Could ya puree some meat?

like mebbe some steak?

puree'd steak, yum

:rofl:

[deadparrot]

79. George Bush I.

:cry:

[Chan790]

81. Me 2.

Could be worse. I had a friend in college, a grad student from MD (more of an aging yuppie embarking on a new career now that he had enough money that he could pursue a passion instead.), who was named after the VP when he was born...the only VP in history from MD.

Spiro Agnew.

Poor Spiro (not Agnew).

[ZombieNixon]

82. Bush Sr.

:eyes:

[Kajsa]

83. Alben W. Barkley

Truman was President, which I knew but
I didn't know who was VP.
I learned something new, today. ;-)

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/alben_barkley.pdf

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

85. Alben Barkley

guess his career didn't last after that

:shrug:


:hi:

:hug:

[Kajsa]

87. Nope, I've never heard of him.

:hi: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

90. Did He Love The Seahawks?

:shrug:

:hug:

[Kajsa]

96. They weren't around then, Southpaw!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Seahawks

truth be told I had to look up their history-
( when did they start,etc?)


:pals:

[SPKrazy]

97. Urp....

:crazy:

:eyes:

:pals:

[MikeH]

91. Also Alben W. Barkley

1950; Truman's VP

[NNadir]

115. That link was a great read. Thanks! n/t

[Kajsa]

148. You're welcome!

:hi:

[Misskittycat]

167. Me, too. Born in 1951, but I didn't know who was VP. Never heard of him. n/t

[AshevilleGuy]

183. My cousin, Alben Barkley.

Never met him of course, but he was related to me through the Stevensons. Yeah, Adlai. :)

[Lautremont]

84. Spiro Agnew

No one's said him yet that I've seen. Odd, that!

[bleedingheart]

131. I too was born when Agnew was VP

[pepsi_drinker]

88. The VP was

Bush 1 :puke:

[SPKrazy]

99. Welcome To DU!

honored to be the thread that you posted first on!

:woohoo:

Bush 1 :puke:

[calico1]

89. Tricky Dicky! n/t

[City Lights]

92. Same here. eom

[Seabiscuit]

93. NO ONE!

When Harry S Truman became President on April 12, 1945, 20 days before I was born, there was NO Vice President until January, 1949, when Alben W. Barkley became Truman's Vice President.

[krispos42]

103. Nelson Rockerfeller

Holy crap, I just realized I was born during Ford, not Carter!

Ugh.

The curse of being a BiCentennial Baby!

[SethInUpstateNY]

104. The VP was

Spiro Agnew. :puke:

[Rhythm]

105. HHH...

took me a minute to find it, though...

[SPKrazy]

112. My Sister's Age

1966

HHH

He got screwn to have a shot at the presidency I think.

:shrug:

[Rhythm]

116. I know precious little about that time period in politics...

i think i should spend more time reading and less time goofing...

[SPKrazy]

119. I Do Think It Was A Point In History

when a lot of things changed politically

for one, it was immediately after the civil rights bill was passed

the South which had been a Democratic stronghold was lost to the Repukes because of civil rights namely.

The Democratic party changed to a northeast stronghold and prolly more liberal than it had been due to that.

:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

107. Minnesotan Hubert H. Humphrey

[SPKrazy]

110. Celebrate Minnesota!

as I told KW, Minnesota was so progressive, and then came the HMO, the brainchild of some misguided Minnesotan.

[NNadir]

108. Alben Barkley.

Mr. Barkley was almost a President. He was on Roosevelt's short list in 1944, but Truman got the nod.

[susanna]

109. Well, I learned something new today.

Hubert Humphrey (under Johnson, 1967). I honestly did not even know!

[SPKrazy]

111. Cool!

Call it DU Lounge Civics Thread :rofl:

:hi:

[susanna]

113. Thanks for the thread, Southpawkicker!

It's funny because I just took that citizenship test in one of the forums and I did great. But I honestly never thought about who was Pres/VP when I was born, because frankly I wasn't all that political at the time. ;-)

I do remember Nixon resigning, though, young as I was.

[SPKrazy]

114. Wow, You Were What, 6 y/o?

I guess that is old enough to remember. I was about 12 or so, I think... I barely remember it.

:hi:

you mean you weren't born politically minded :shrug:

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

117. I was 8 when Nixon resigned. I watched him on television with my dad.

I'd heard a lot of Watergate talk, of course, but I didn't understand it. All I knew was that my dad didn't like Nixon very much.

[SPKrazy]

118. Yeah, I Remember (with embarrassment)

that for some reason when I was 11, I was for Nixon for President. :shrug:

I have no idea why. I don't think my parents were, although it is possible that my mother was

[susanna]

121. Answers:

1) Yes, I remember it vividly - that awful goldenish color (old TVs) of the Oval Office behind him and his kinda mean face.

2) Yes, I was born politically minded. I was just more interested in bright colors and fuzzy objects for a short while until I really hit my stride. ;-)

[SPKrazy]

128. HAHAHAHAHA!

:spray:

that was funny susanna ;)

just more interested in bright colors and fuzzy objects until you hit your stride

:rofl:

:pals:

[susanna]

133. We have to start somewhere, eh? :-) n/t

[SPKrazy]

135. True dat!

:rofl:

[otherlander]

120. He wasn't there at the moment.

He needed to study his Latin. ;)

[SPKrazy]

173. *snort*

even though i know it doesn't make sense really, it makes sense to me otherlander

:rofl:

:hi:

[sakabatou]

123. George H.W. Bush

[MsKandice01]

124. Nelson Rockefeller...

1975, baby!

[UrbScotty]

125. George Hellish Weasel Bush (nt)

[Vidar]

126. Nixon.

[Zoigal]

127. Vice President

in 1929 was Charles Curtis. E gad, that was a while ago.

[ScreamingMeemie]

157. Just a few years really...

:hi: :toast:

[LTR]

129. Triple H

Humphrey.

[Kutjara]

130. LBJ n/t

[NoPasaran]

132. Tricky Dick!

[struggle4progress]

134. The tricky dick

[catzies]

136. LBJ too, just like you.

But let me ask YOU something: do you self-identify as a Boomer or as an X-er?

[havocmom]

138. We had a king at the time

;)

[dysfunctional press]

140. hey, hey, lbj...

1961.

[geiger]

143. Richard Nixon, now that's a blast from the past.

You made me think.

[noonwitch]

144. Hubert Humphry, I think-he was LBJ's VP, right?

I was born in 1964.

[melliyna]

145. Unfortunately It Was

Dick Cheney *shudder* (1987)

[RebelOne]

146. Seems that FDR had three vice-presidents

John Nance Garner
Henry A. Wallace
Harry S. Truman

[SteppingRazor]

147. Nelson Rockefeller n/t

[Hangingon]

149. Henry A. Wallace

[Fox Mulder]

150. George HW Bush

Edit to add :puke:

[demrabble]

151. Barkley

Alben Barkley was Vice President when I was born.

[reyd reid reed]

152. Richard Nixon nt

[ceile]

156. Mondale

[Orsino]

159. Johnson, appropriately enough. n/t

[SPKrazy]

177. Que?

:shrug:

:hi:

[Orsino]

181. I'd only get the thread locked.

;)

[LSdemocrat]

160. Walter Mondale

[SPKrazy]

176. Boy did he

get screwn...

:hi:

[WI_DEM]

161. nobody. I was born in 1964 and at that time the office of the VP was open due to the

assassination of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson becoming president. The US had no VP from November 22, 1963 until January 20, 1965 when Hubert Humphrey was sworn in. Had LBJ died the speaker of the house, John McCormick of MA would have assumed the presidency.

[SPKrazy]

175. Isn't That Interesting...

I learned that from this thread

:shrug:

:hi:

[ronnykmarshall]

162. LBJ as well.

[SPKrazy]

174. All right!

LBJ!

:hi:

[mentalsolstice]

163. Nixon, however...

Johnson was VP/elect.

[SPKrazy]

172. Hokay...

had to think about that for a brief moment... I was born in 61, so to be Veep elect you would have to have been born in late 1960, right? :crazy:

:hi:

[TOhioLiberal]

164. Johnson...

...April, 1962.

Yes, I'm old. :eyes::rofl:

[SPKrazy]

171. Not As Old As Me!

but only by a few months

:hi:

[TOhioLiberal]

178. True...

I am younger than you. :evilgrin:

[NewWaveChick1981]

165. Lyndon Johnson.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

170. Just Barely...

he was just for a while wasn't he....

:hi:

:hug:

[styersc]

166. LBJ

.

[smtpgirl]

169. Sadly to say it was Nixon

But IMHO, Eisenhower was the last respected Republican in my book after WWII.

Not including local political figures from MD, what comes to mind is Connie Morella

[bumblebee1]

179. LBJ for me, too. eom

[Ignacio Upton]

180. Poppy

'nuff said.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

182. Well...

Sprio T. Agnew started (1969-1973).





Gerald R. Ford came after him (1973-1974).

:hi: