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Not too many people in their mid 40s such as myself could say that the President of the United States who was the incumbent in the White House on the day they were born was still alive; never mind having any memory of that person. Well, he was still with us right up until a short time ago. While the UK had a James C in Downing Street back in 1978, our American counterparts also had a James C in charge as well. Jimmy Carter, the President of the United States who oversaw America out of the 1970s and into the 1980s has died aged 100. A career change from a peanut farmer to a Democrat President, Jimmy Carter who occupied the White House from January 1977, taking over from post-Watergate Republican Gerald Ford, and remaining in there for one term until January 1981 when due a lost election, handed over the baton to double-termer Ronald Reagan. He was President Number 39 and he had been the oldest lived American man to become President of the United States in its two century history.
A friend of mine who lives in New York and was born in the early part of 1963 obviously had no memory at all of the President of the United States on the day he was born being alive; just like Pope John Paul I to someone such as myself. No one at all born in that year had any memory of John F Kennedy being alive which was a huge contrast with those born in 1978 like myself when Carter was President. Indeed, in around 1974 prior to Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal, there were no living former American Presidents, although the irony was that Kennedy would peobably have been the only surviving one had he have not been assassinated over a decade earlier. As he was President of the United States on the day I was born, I do feel that he deserves a tribute on here from someone who had been born during his time in office such as myself.
A friend of mine who lives in New York and was born in the early part of 1963 obviously had no memory at all of the President of the United States on the day he was born being alive; just like Pope John Paul I to someone such as myself. No one at all born in that year had any memory of John F Kennedy being alive which was a huge contrast with those born in 1978 like myself when Carter was President. Indeed, in around 1974 prior to Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal, there were no living former American Presidents, although the irony was that Kennedy would peobably have been the only surviving one had he have not been assassinated over a decade earlier. As he was President of the United States on the day I was born, I do feel that he deserves a tribute on here from someone who had been born during his time in office such as myself.
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