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(17,621 posts)Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon for me.
ChazII
(6,206 posts)dsc
(52,166 posts)I was born in 67 and by 77 I was at carter. Johnson, Ford, Nixon, Carter.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)natural attrition, no one died
dsc
(52,166 posts)but it is pretty wild that given that start I am only on 9 now.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Nixon, ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)These are some wild numbers, are they not. Especially 4 by age 10.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Even weirder, we have been alive in part of 6 decades.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)I'm currently on my tenth president.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)and I don't have the energy to add up the presidents lol!
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George HW Bush, Clinton, George W Bush, Obama
B Calm
(28,762 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)She has seen Presidents 27 (Taft)-44. That's 18 Presidents. With 9 at 48, I'm on her pace. Thank you FDR!
StevieM
(10,500 posts)I always assumed that we would be throwing her a 100th birthday party. Ridiculous as this sounds, it never dawned on me that she wouldn't live to 100. She was in such good health and had all her wits up until close to the end.
Did your family throw your grandma a 100th birthday party?
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Here she is at her 100th Birthday Party in 2012
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She fell and broke her hip a couple of months ago, had hip-replacement surgery, and was up doing PT like the next day. She's riding her stationary bike again like she never missed a beat.
Here I am with my grandparents at their 70th Anniversary Party in 2010. I tell people I'm 6'3" when I show them this picture, but the truth is, I'm only 5'9" hahaha
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This was the second 70th Wedding Anniversary Party I've been to. The first was in 1980 for my grandfather's parents. Everyone on my mother's side of the family live forever lol And here I am, 48 and never married. I tell people that in my family, I can get married at age 50 and still live to see my 40th Wedding Anniversary. It's not that far fetched!
40 YEARS!!!!
That was fun
EDIT: well, that didn't work.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)a 110th party as well.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)By the time he was 30, he had already lived under eight presidents.
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
I'm almost that age and I've only lived under five. Doesn't really help that the last three presidents have been two-termers.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)On many levels, it doesn't help anyone that Bush was a 2 termer.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)11 presidents in 30 years, last one in the line being Grant.
onenote
(42,759 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Drop Truman, add Poppy.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Clinton, Bush, Obama. That's it in 22 years.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)She died just a month before her 106th in 2002.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)Tyler, who was born in 1790, was 75 when he had the father, who was 63 when he had the grandson. lol
RoverSuswade
(641 posts)The most startling thing she said that made an impression on me was that when she was a little girl most of the birds were red, blue, or yellow. She said black birds were in the minority. I can't imagine!
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)...3 by age 20.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)TBF
(32,092 posts)Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I was born in 1974 shortly before Nixon resigned. Before I turned 7, Raygun was inaugurated.
Not that there's anyone around here at this age, but someone born March 3rd, 1841 would have seen 6 Presidents before they reached 10
Lancero
(3,013 posts)WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)And someone born in the early 1930s would have had just 1, FDR.
Exhibit A
(318 posts)Nixon, Ford, & Carter.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Reagan and Bush 41.
I was born two months after Reagan's first inauguration. Obama is #5 for me.
Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)Reagan
Bush
Clinton
Bush
Obama
I'll be on my 3rd Bush (GOD FORBID) or 2nd Clinton soon.
Almost 30 years of life, 5 Presidents, and only 2 Presidents will have had a different last name.