A review of the U.S. Presidents during my lifetime

     Before we get to this amazing and bizarre presidential campaign of 2016, I figure a small review of those who have gone before is necessary to set the stage for what is appearing to be one of the strangest moments in United States political history. I'll approach these one at a time:

     There have been a dozen U.S. presidents in my lifetime beginning with Harry Truman. I only missed FDR by a month and what I know about Harry mostly comes from history texts which I read later, mostly during the college years. I learned he liked to drink whiskey and play poker and had a plaque on his desk that said, “The Buck Stops Here.” He had a daughter who played piano and sang badly and it pissed him off if you brought this up. 

     He surprised everyone when I was three by getting reelected and once stood down General Douglas McArthur when McArthur wouldn’t act right in Korea. 

     But I hold ‘Ol Harry responsible for two of the more heinous occurrences in U.S. history: (1) Because some rather mad scientists in Oak Ridge had cooked up this gadget that had a destructive force unknown to modern man up to that point, he authorized using this devise one pleasant fall morning on some innocent civilians in Hiroshima, Japan, killing thousands and thousands.

     The story goes that this was done in order to avoid invading Japan, but that was bullshit. Japan was whipped and everyone, including Japan, knew it for a fact. The Hiroshima bomb was dropped primarily to show Joe Stalin and Russia just what a bunch of bad motherfuckers we Americans were. Three days later, he authorized dropping another one on Nagasaki, which was just plain mean and barbaric and (2) Several years later, ‘Ol Harry signed a piece of paper which created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the whole world has suffered greatly because of that ever since.

Next up -- Ike.