Monday, February 13, 2006

Bush, Dole And Nixon

Here's an interesting bit of trivia courtesy of the Washington Post. In my lifettime (i.e. since 1947 -- you do the math), there have been 14 Presidential elections. In all but one of them, someone named Bush, Dole or Nixon has been on the Republican ticket.

I was able to identify the exceptional year without much effort. But in several of the years in which a Bush, Dole or Nixon was running for President, I must admit to having had to resort to Wikipedia to figure out who the Vice Presidential candidates were.

If you are interested, the answers are posted in the Comments to this post.

1 comment:

Bill said...

The answers:


2004 GW Bush Cheney
2000 GW Bush Cheney
1996 Dole Kemp
1992 GHW Bush Quayle
1988 GHW Bush Quayle
1984 Reagan GHW Bush
1980 Reagan GHW Bush
1976 Ford Dole
1972 Nixon Agnew
1968 Nixon Agnew
1964 Goldwater Miller
1960 Nixon Lodge
1956 Eisenhower Nixon
1952 Eisenhower Nixon