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In reply to the discussion: How the baby boomers not millennials screwed America [View all]FarCenter
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A lot of the damage was done under presidents from Kennedy through GHW Bush.
Kennedy was 26 years younger than Eisenhower, and he was the first WW II combat vet president. GHW Bush was 33 years younger than Eisenhower, and he was the last WW II combat vet president. All the presidents in between were born from 1908 (Johnson) to 1924 (Carter).
So the boomers were growing up and coming of age during a period from Camelot through Its Morning Again in America - A period when the Greatest Generations triumphal spirit of national hubris was at its peak.
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PS - Clinton, W, and Trump were all born in 1946. See Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, for the advantages of being older in a cohort.