July 12, 201610 yr Bull! Anyone under 50 would know who that guy was if he walked into a room. And his mom (from the movie)
July 12, 201610 yr Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt There's a picture somewhere of young Teddy Roosevelt watching Lincoln's funeral from his grandfather's house.
July 12, 201610 yr Kind of sort of related to this topic. President John Tyler (born 1790, elected 1840?) still had two grandchildren alive at the beginning of this year. Both he and his son fathered children at an advanced age (70ish).
July 12, 201610 yr Kind of sort of related to this topic. President John Tyler (born 1790, elected 1840?) still had two grandchildren alive at the beginning of this year. Both he and his son fathered children at an advanced age (70ish). 70ish, wow. I assume the mothers of these children we decades younger than the fathers?
July 12, 201610 yr 70ish, wow. I assume the mothers of these children we decades younger than the fathers? Yes. Not an uncommon occurrence at a time when people died relatively young. Young widows received security for themselves and their children and old widowers received, well we know what they received.
July 13, 201610 yr Author Hiram Cronk (the last living US veteran of the War Of 1812) and Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, General Mark Clark, General Omar Bradley, General Doug MacArthur, General Matthew Ridgeway.
July 14, 201610 yr Bull! Anyone under 50 would know who that guy was if he walked into a room. They'd know who he was, but not his real name. They'd only know him as Stiffler.
July 14, 201610 yr Strom Thurmond and just about everybody from the past 175 years, and for another 100 or so.
July 14, 201610 yr They'd know who he was, but not his real name. They'd only know him as Stiffler. I think that means he qualifies even more.
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