Responding to our first question, which asked readers to recall their first political memory, Tom Nelson, all the way from Torquay, Australia, recalls "Standing in a voting line at my local school with my father for the Stevenson-Eisenhower election in 1952. Two men in front of my father got into an argument about the two candidates and ended up in a fist fight! What this meant to me at the time was fear and some excitment, but also a base understanding that politics was about two distinct opinions and parties (as I also remember the donkey and elephant badges.) I expect it also ingrained the need to vote to make your opinion count."
Writing from Tacoma, John Hathaway recalls "Miss McCraley's second grade class at Whitman Grade School in Tacoma. She lived about half a block from the school and took the entire class to her house to watch the 1952 GOP Convention on her newfangled television set. Yes, the year Eisenhower was elected. I was 7-years old. It had to be arrested developement, because I didn't get involved in politics until 1989."
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