Heard this on a podcast I was listening to as I was getting ready this morning and thought it was worth repeating:
No U.S. President has ever been born, and died under the same US flag.
(Fact mentioned by futurist Paul Saffo, though I think he was repeating someone else's research.)
In other words, pick a President. when he was born the US flag had X stars. When that President died, the US flag had X+1 (or more) stars.
Saffo made this point to reinforce the notion that the US is always changing and growing.
This fact will hold at least thru Bill Clinton, as Alaska was added to the Union in 1959, while Clinton was born in 1946. In case you're wondering, Obama was born in 1961, so if he wins this fall, we'll need to add a state for this fact to hold true.
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Yes, I was referring to the work of my friend, Juan Enriquez who mentions the fact in his book "THe Untied States of America"
- Paul Saffo
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