My dad, A WWII vet, voted Ike in '52, and '56. Then Kennedy.
Sad to think that, over 166 years, Republicans have had, as you say, "three good" ones. That's it.
Though I have my reservations about Ike and his leadership for the interstate highway system. Though I must admit, too, that my dad, when he voted Ike, was a fairly prom…
My dad, A WWII vet, voted Ike in '52, and '56. Then Kennedy.
Sad to think that, over 166 years, Republicans have had, as you say, "three good" ones. That's it.
Though I have my reservations about Ike and his leadership for the interstate highway system. Though I must admit, too, that my dad, when he voted Ike, was a fairly prominent designer of cars, all through the chrome-&-tail-fin 1950s, and I growing up in a couple Detroit-area suburbs.
Imagine had the U.S. instead then dedicated itself nationwide to really good trains -- as a public service, not as second-class (and much worse) 2nd fiddle to freight lines.
And, too, Emily, joined in by Goodyear and other rubber tire companies.
Plus GM, and other car makers who bought up dozens of public streetcar companies beginning 90 years ago in massive campaign by them to gut, kill, replace all street rail with buses, then reduce, kill even those meager public resources.
J. Michael Straczynski wrote, and Clint Eastwood directed "Changeling," a 2008 crime drama set in L.A. and nearby then-named Wineville, now Mira Loma, where murders of children took place in 1928.
I was born in 1947 (Jan. 4 of that year) in Glendale, Los Angeles county, when the Red line connected, united all those far-flung communities -- which figures nicely in that 2008 movie.
Yes, TCinLA.
My dad, A WWII vet, voted Ike in '52, and '56. Then Kennedy.
Sad to think that, over 166 years, Republicans have had, as you say, "three good" ones. That's it.
Though I have my reservations about Ike and his leadership for the interstate highway system. Though I must admit, too, that my dad, when he voted Ike, was a fairly prominent designer of cars, all through the chrome-&-tail-fin 1950s, and I growing up in a couple Detroit-area suburbs.
Imagine had the U.S. instead then dedicated itself nationwide to really good trains -- as a public service, not as second-class (and much worse) 2nd fiddle to freight lines.
Ahhhh.....but the truck lobby.
And the gasoline, oil, fossil fuel giants.
And, too, Emily, joined in by Goodyear and other rubber tire companies.
Plus GM, and other car makers who bought up dozens of public streetcar companies beginning 90 years ago in massive campaign by them to gut, kill, replace all street rail with buses, then reduce, kill even those meager public resources.
The story of the Red Line here in LA.
Yes, TCinLA.
J. Michael Straczynski wrote, and Clint Eastwood directed "Changeling," a 2008 crime drama set in L.A. and nearby then-named Wineville, now Mira Loma, where murders of children took place in 1928.
I was born in 1947 (Jan. 4 of that year) in Glendale, Los Angeles county, when the Red line connected, united all those far-flung communities -- which figures nicely in that 2008 movie.
The Red Line is also a star in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Sorry, Kathy, I got mixed up.
In mine to you, thanking you, I used the name of another person, not you.