KIDS & PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Kids today are more aware of elections due to Television which carries all these political ads.
The first Presidential election that I was aware of was the one between Franklin D Roosevelt & I think his name was Alf Landon. I'm not really sure of the spelling of his last name.

I grew up with President Roosevelt being my president until his death shortly before the WW 2 ended.

I think I was 8 or 9 when he ran against Landen. As today young children were "for" whoever their parents were supporting. Back in thoise days the "Elephant" & the Donkey were symbals of the two parties. I believe my parents were Democratrats at the time.

I remember getting a small elephant on a string from somewhere or someone, possibly a relative & even though it wasn't the party my mom was for she let me keep it.

At that time my sister & I rode the school bus, & I can recall a shouting match going on between kids whose moms & dads were for Roosevelt & those from the Landen supporeters. Shouts of "we want Landen" "& we want Roosevelt" were echoing throughout the bus. If memory serves me, the bus driver pulled over after trying to quiet down the bus load of kids & said he wasn't moving until we quieted down which we obediently did.

President Roosevelt took over the country during the time of the "great depression" & proved to be great leader when we reluctantly went to war after being attacked at Pearl Harbor.

During this election, my two little granddaughters have gone out with daddy to give out literature door to door in their neighborhood as the oldest did in the last election when she was 5.