The Washington Post Gnarls Barkley Memory
March 28, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Lovers of political trivia should rejoice at today’s Washington Post correction:
A March 27 KidsPost article about presidential elections said that 2008 will be the first time since 1952 that neither a sitting president nor a sitting vice president has run for president. President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley each ran briefly for the Democratic nomination in 1952.
They’re right. We owe it to the kiddies to set the record straight about the great Alben Barkley.
Lee Annis said,
March 28, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
Don’t knock Alben Barkley. As Senator Bill Frist and I noted in our treatment of Tennessee Senators (how’s that for a way to get in a shameless plug), Barkley was not only an effective Senate Majority Leader but his memoir That Reminds Me was one of our best sources and had one of the best compilations of congressional anecdotes ever.
AlexC said,
March 28, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
1928.
DADvocate said,
March 28, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
Crazy!