There are currently four living ex-presidents – Carter, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton and G.W. Bush. What was the greatest number of living ex-POTUSes at any one time?
Bonus points: Name them
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It was a semi-trick question. The number is five and it’s happened twice.
Five ex-presidents were alive from January 21, 1993 until Nixon died on April 22, 1994. (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Carter and G.H.W. Bush.)
When Clinton left office on January 21, 2001, he joined Ford, Carter, Reagan and G.H.W. Bush to make five living ex-POTUSes again. Reagan died on June 5, 2004. Ford died on December 26, 2006.
BTW – When Lyndon Johnson died on January 22, 1973 there where no former presidents left alive, the first time that that had happened since the death of George Washington in 1799.
The Crawdad Hole 
This is an open thread
Bonus question #2. Who was the first oresident to use a Teleprompter?
Two answers: In office, LBJ in (1961) Ever, Herbie Hoover (in 1952 speech)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/battered_country_syndrome.html
this article expresses how I feel
Preach it. sister!
I have been saying the same thing for a long time now!!! He is an abusive president !! Nice to be validated .
she scares me!
I’ve alway been a fan of Barbara Bush, I have a kinship in that our big mouths always get in trouble 😀
I thought that was the Quaker Oats guy.
He scares me more!
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA5SMRRO0
major flood alerts may be shut down do to sequester.
backtrack is not going to be happy until there is a major disaster and he can blame it on republicans
How are those electric cars doing?
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/25/feds-investigating-role-of-tamerlan-tsarnaevs-muslim-convert-wife/
bomber’s wife reinvestigation
Another nice photo:
Those viscious Tea Party slashers struck again!
For fans of the Battle Hymn from today’s Bush Center dedication:
http://www.firehouse.com/search/:175272/v?utm_source=related_content_box&utm_medium=related_content&utm_campaign=10925346
West Texas memorial service will be live streamed
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/boston-bombings-insurance-coverage/2013/04/25/id/501391
did not know this
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/25/lolz-at-workers-65-of-coal-powered-plants-may-close-thanks-to-epa/
unemployment to rise, but thats ok
Bain Capital!!!!
Squirrel!!!
Ace on that “school makes kids try gay kiss” story
http://minx.cc/?post=339455
Yup.
Yes, leave the kids alone. Geeesh, we practiced “kissing” each other at slumber parties in high school to see what all the fuss was about kissing boys. And yeah, those were the Frankie and Annette days 😀
Feel good burka story
Another feel-good story
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/25/knife-wielding-pakistani-bus-driver-attempts-to-rape-female-u-s-navy-sailor-ends-up-getting-beat-up-getting-and-locked-in-a-stranglehold/
KNIFE-WIELDING PAKISTANI BUS DRIVER ATTEMPTS TO RAPE FEMALE U.S. NAVY SAILOR — ENDS UP GETTING BEAT UP AND LOCKED IN A STRANGLEHOLD INSTEAD
A knife-wielding Pakistani bus driver is accused of attempting to rape a off-duty female U.S. Navy sailor in Dubai. However, he never got the chance to commit the act of rape because the 28-year-old woman wrestled the driver to the ground and put him in a stranglehold using her thighs.
“Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs,” the Daily Mail reports.
Oh, no. Not another over-the-top display of US dominance! What in the world was she thinking? Now there’s another M-word person who hates Americans.
Probably didn’t even piss herself. Clearly she’s not following acceptable Dem party policies.
GO NAVY
UK columnist:
Where is the mob of Muslim-hating Americans going crazy after Boston? It’s a figment of liberals’ imaginations
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100213507/where-is-the-mob-of-muslim-hating-americans-going-crazy-after-boston-its-a-figment-of-liberals-imaginations/
The whole crew is returning to their day job as picketers for Westboro Baptist “Church”
I know it’s Coulter, but this made me snicker
Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter 1m
Congress looking to exempt itself from Obamacare. Apparently, they finally got around to reading it.
When I was going through the vile prog days, my husband bought her book, How to Speak to Liberals. I think it saved my marriage 😀
I quit caring about Ann Coulter when I realized that she is basically a shock jock without a radio program. Just like Bill Maher is a TV shock jock.
They both say things that are outrageous to get attention – red meat for their own partisans, pearl clutching vapors for the other side.
But occasionally they both get off a good line.
And somehow each is more tolerable when they’re less smug on the anti-establishment side.
Slapping myself silly. Maybe it’s the awesomesauce of seeing all my living Presidents and First Ladies today, or the Battle Hymn that always reminds me what a great country I live in ….. but Obama is giving a great speech in Waco right now. Kudos to his speechwriters.
Has somebody been eating choom brownies again?
Though I was just down to VB and Norfolk earlier this week, I swear I didn’t slip Denise any. Mostly.
You’re a good friend DT 😉
I love you too myiq /snort
I am pleased to report that the Klown Family has been expanded to include another grand-niece. Details are sketchy but mom and baby are doing fine. If this one is anything like her older sister my nephew and his wife are in for some interesting times.
BTW – In these days of blended families we need to come up with some new terms. What should I call my kids’ half-sister? (Same mom, different dads) She is not a “in” or “step” relation. I see her all the time because her siblings are my kids and my grandkids are her niece and nephews.
There really oughta be a word for that.
BTW 2.0 – Grandkids make you play nice with people you hoped you would never see again.
Congrats! And there should be a cousin-in-law sort of name too. They’re some of my favorite people. Probably because I’m not related to them. 🙂
And by the way, if you’re ever in VA, you’re with my relatives, somehow. They’re frick-ing everywhere.
Kissing cousins?
Some yes. Some, not for all the money in the world.
just family works, she is now a part of yours.
i meant to say congratulations and enjoy watching her grow. It is funny how we learn to stop and enjoy small things watching the wonder in a child’s eyes as the see the wide world.
also funny to watch such a small person make big people jump when they speak and take over the whole house
I don’t get to watch her grow. They live in NH.
But being a grandparent is MUCH more enjoyable than parenting. No stress, no responsibility, and you can’t be embarrassed by anything they say or do.
grandkids are a parents best revenge.
a couple of years ago for Christmas I wrote a journal for each of my kids with stories of what they did when they were kids. You want to see panic, they were afraid their kids would read the stories. I did not write any stories that the kids could use against them but it was fun to listen to the worry from them. I left room in each journal for them to add stories.
also wrote recipes for them
Congrats! You are a patriarch. 😀
Welcome to my patriarchy! (No patricide allowed!)
In our family we call all of the people who are related to people we’re related to, but not related to us, the “outlaws”.
Well my 22 year old outlaw quasi-daughter had to get a full hysterectomy last week. She had a tumor. She is married but no kids. Poor thing is really having a rough time. She’s the type that would have loved having about 5 kids.
😦
My mom wanted five kids. She only managed to birth 2 of us so she adopted 3 more. Maybe when your quasi-daughter recovers she’ll see there are many paths to motherhood.
2.0. Right now gdaughter is the only thing keepkng S alive (am firm adherant to the Bill Cosby Parenting Law [brought ya into this world and will take you right out -and make another])
In my (totally dysfunctional) family, pretty much none of us are biologically related, or are only partially so. (Lots of adoptions, divorces, remarriages with kids from previous marriages in tow, and new kids resulting from the remarriages.) We just use the words sister, brother, niece, cousin, whatever, and leave off the steps and the halves. That’s what X and I have chosen to do with respect to my oldest (from a previous marriage) as well. All the kids are just plain old brothers and sisters as far as we and they are concerned. So if it were me, I would just go with niece or grand niece. As a former kid from a broken home, I really appreciated that the, uh, “appended” members of the older generations never made a distinction.
If you can rattle off these charts without having to think, you’ve got too many relatives.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/25/Pentagon-Blocks-Troops-Access-to-Southern-Baptist-Website
about that freedom of religion, I guess it no longer applies in the military
Yeh, I know a couple of Southern Baptists. They ARE more dangerous than M-persons. They smoke cigars!
Iffen they smoke cigars they ain’t Foot-Washing Baptists. FWB don’t smoke, drink, dance or play cards. They better get into Heaven cuz they’re living in Hell right now.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/25/internet-comes-to-the-rescue-of-man-whose-boat-was-shot-up-capturing-dzhokhar-tsarnaev/
fund to replace boat where bomber found
He should auction it off on Ebay.
I agree.
Yeah, cost a lot less to repair the trailer and make it towable. But apparently it was a classic and his pride and joy. Guy has guts, though. Climbing up to look inside after being in lockdown overnight. Don’t think I cudda done that.
He should auction it off as-is. Don’t even clean it.
Somebody will buy it, especially if there are still bloodstains in it.
A trophy? 🙂