Fun fact: “For my current students, Clinton is the first president that they can remember,” Mr. Barrett said. “So I actually have to explain to them what the joke means.”
Great - now we feel old.
LBJ plate
Item: A commemorative plate featuring Lyndon B. Johnson and short text references to issues of his era, including the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the war on poverty.
Fun fact: Mr. Barrett seldom brings this item to class. The reason? “I put this one up on the wall in my bathroom, because LBJ would conduct business anywhere,” he said. “Including, famously, in the White House bathroom.”
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