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Mon 4 Nov, 2002 02:21 pm
Or your first vote for Premiere or Prime Minister, for that matter - my question is, who was the first head of state you voted for?
My first was John Anderson, the Independent candidate for President in 1980.
My first Presidential ballot was for:
Arnoldo MartÃnez Verdugo - Socialist Unified Party - Mexico - 1982
Are you ready? Richard M. Nixon, 1968.
Oh, come on guys. I was a kid.
You and me, Pheonix. JFK in '60.
Merry Andrew- Like fine wine, I do believe that we are of similar vintage!
My first presidential vote was in Arizona in 1968 and I voted for HHH, Hubert H. Humphrey. I was 22, the voting age was 21 at that time. My choices were, Richard Nixon, George Wallace of Humphrey.
Oh, and i met Hubert H in '68, i was pickin' up some extra cash in the University Union, and they had us settin' up tables for the Dem's dinner to be held there that evening. HHH walked in and shook everyone's hand. Old HHH asked me who i would vote for, and i replied: "I suppose i'm expected to say that i'm gonna vote for you, right?" He just laughed and asked if i was gonna vote for Nixon. I told him no, and pointed out that i was not yet 21, and couldn't vote for anyone--although i was fairly certainly i'd be allowed to die in far off lands . . . he grew very serious and said that was an issue that disturbed him . . . then he put on the big smile, and went to shake the hand of someone obviously old enough to vote for him . . .
Setanta I saw him once to, not long before he died in D.C. I was heading down Constitution going East from capitol hill in my little ole poweder blue VW bug. I looked into the rear view mirror and there he was sitting up fron with his driver I smiled and waived, he simled and waved back, great smile. I got so shook I turned left on a red light, hehe. The last image of him I saw looked similar to this :0
heeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .
you sound like one a them ohier drivers . . .
heeheeheeheeheehee . . .
okbye
Well, kids, I voted for Eisenhower in 1952.
Ohio hi ho drive, been there done that. Almost got myself kille.
I have driven in Ohio and I have driven in DC. All things considered, I'll take Ohio.
If i could give it to you, and be quit of it, i assure you that i would . . .
Jespah my band played a fund raiser for John Anderson in Raleigh.
I figured any candidate who would contact an all out metal band to play a gig for him was okay.
He lost of course.