"Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM" wrote:
> First Daddy Bush became president, and later his son. I am
> honestly surprised that the US does not have a law against
> several generations of the same family occupying the White
> House.
So far, there hasn't been a need. Besides the Bushes, the US
has only elected a father and son to the presidency one other
time, when they elected John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and
that was almost 200 years ago. So, it doesn't happen often
enough for a law to be necessary.
(Somebody please smack me up-side the head if I've forgotten
any other father-son presidents.)
> I mean, that does give an awful lot of power to just one
> family. What if later on one of his daughters would become
> president? That way, the Bush family would be on its way
> to become something similar to the Royal Families we have
> in Europe. (I know there is a word for one family running
> the country for generations, I just cannot remember it
> right now. Oligarchy?)
Oh, you mean like the Kennedys? ;-)
> On the positive side, we will know *one* thing for sure
> when one of GWB's girls becomes president: she won't
> repeat history, and place a ban on alcohol... <grin>
<groan>
:-)
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