5 Responses to “Fun Fact”

1. 1 1 Jens B Fiederer
   January 9, 2022 at 12:55 am

   But…do any of his descendants sing for Aerosmith?

2. 2 2 David R. Henderson
   January 9, 2022 at 10:21 am

   My friend Ivan Eland knows him. And because in his book Recarving Rushmore, Ivan rates John Tyler as the best president, Ivan has given a talk (I think even more than one talk) at a Tyler event to celebrate the grandfather.

3. 3 3 John Barry
   January 14, 2022 at 9:43 am

   That’s a nice reminder that our nation is young. It still fascinates me that when my Dad (born 1920) was a kid, there were still civil war vets around. I never bothered to ask him whether he spoke with any of them.

4. 4 4 Steve Landsburg
   January 14, 2022 at 9:44 am

   My dad was born in 1924. I too failed to ask this question, but wish I had.

5. 5 5 Richard D.
   January 19, 2022 at 10:02 pm

   Funner facts:

   Joseph Stalin’s grand daughter operates a gift shop in Oregon, selling locally crafted items, including apparatus to exploit Oregon’s lenient cannabis environment.

   If you find that dubious, recall a hiccup of history:
   https://www.britannica.com/biography/Svetlana-Alliluyeva

   Svetlana was an artsy hippie, the type who commonly deported to Siberia during that period. Her KGB detail code named her “the kookoo bird.”

   Nikita Krushchev’s son – “We will bury you!” – was tenured at Brown Univ. Where he lived, not in a workers collective, but a bourgeois suburban tract house, with barbeque and pool, suffering the miseries of capitalist oppression, a/k/a the american dream.

   There’s a double irony, as he ended up at Brown, which, in fine Ivy League tradition, houses more marxists than U. of Moscow.