This will boggle you.

[gridlore]

Courtesy of Hardball's Big Number.

When was the last time the Republicans won the White House without a candidate named Bush or Nixon on the ticket?



1928 Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis. Interestingly, Curtis was primarily of Kaw Indian descent, making him the only person of primarily non-European ancestry to occupy the second highest office in the land. He was also a proponent of the five-day work week.

I need to get a good book on the Vice-Presidents. History's "Forgotten Men" are often more interesting than the Presidents they served under.

Comments

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

Without looking behind the cut, 1928. My dad and I had a discussion shortly after the 2004 election about the fact that it had never happened in his lifetime.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, they've already forgotten about their darling named Reagan?

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I saw that on a link off of Huffington today & got an amazed giggle out of it. But thinking about it, Yeah. If Jeb was running now wouldn't guarantee a GOP win, Nixon, after all, lost in 1960. The only time since then that they've had the white house without either of those two "magic" names was during the Ford interregnum.

Think that we can go 16 years again with a blue white house?

[claidheamhmor]

Wow. That's kinda frightening. Definitely a little new blood needed...

book on VPs

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Someone recommended Bland Ambition (http://www.amazon.com/Bland-Ambition-Quayle-Criminals-President/dp/0156131404/) to me a while back, but I haven't picked it up yet.