Tuesday, May 08, 2007

What comes after Gen X?

On Jeopardy! College Tournament the final question was "Who was the first president to conduct a televised news conference?" One of the kids, a fairly smart one, thought it was LBJ. I was stunned. How could he have thought that? Then I realized he was born twenty years after Johnson left office. To him Johnson and Eisenhower are equally figures from the Dark Ages. Another moment of feeling senior....

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:18 PM

    Hey Jack, do you remember where you were when you first heard that Tupac had been shot?

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