Talkin' about my generation _ the real children ofWatergate SECOND Edition

The headline on the cover of a recent Newsweek trumpeted "The children of Watergate" over a 1974 photo of the Clintons. The children of Watergate? That seems like an odd way to describe a 28- year-old lawyer running for Congress and a 26-year-old attorney working on the Nixon impeachment....

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Published inThe San Francisco examiner
Main Author Pontell, Jonathan
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco, Calif San Francisco Media Company 04.12.1998
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Summary:The headline on the cover of a recent Newsweek trumpeted "The children of Watergate" over a 1974 photo of the Clintons. The children of Watergate? That seems like an odd way to describe a 28- year-old lawyer running for Congress and a 26-year-old attorney working on the Nixon impeachment. It's absurd enough that the Baby Boomers are called the children of the '60s, even though those "flower children" were actually well into their teens and 20s when the '60s hit. David Halberstam's latest book, a tome about Boomers in the '60s entitled "The Children," is only the most recent example of this folly. Apparently, some media now also see Boomers as the children of the '70s. It reminds me of a line Michael Kinsley once wrote in The New Republic about his generation: "No one was ever supposed to be younger than us." What's next? A headline: "Boomers - the children of the '90s?"
ISSN:2574-593X