DUers, At What Age Did You Become Politically Minded and Why?

[JimBeard]

81. I was right along with yall. I watched the same convention in 1956. I was 8 years old at the time..

My aunt was baby setting me for a couple of days and I remember her saying that John Kennedy was a nice man when he had to drop out to Stevenson. Stevenson appointed Estes Kefauver as his running mate. My younger sister named her toy horse keypopper. My mother bought us a picture book of the Presidents and I think we kept that book until it was nothing but loose pages.

My parents were both brought up on farms. My mother still remembers to this day when Lyndon Johnson and FDR got electricity run to farm houses. Still votes for the Democrats. (That's what we always called them)

Father was more into farming issues and hated Republicans like a Ferret's hates rats. The name Ezra Taft Benson is etched in my brain, more like "that damn Benson". He was Secretary under Eisenhower.

He was a very happy many when JFK got elected.