A very organized ambitious young man who didn’t have a computer back then. Ever heard of a planner?
It speaks volumes about who he is - a very organized man (as you say) and a smart one, too.
I once saw the suitcase of Martin Luther King which is on display in Montgomery, AL. It was so small and yet so meticulously laid out that it told me this was no ordinary man.
Franklin Planner in 1980’s
A check book keeps a good account of what you did and where you were, but a 17 year old with a checking account? Maybe. A planner, maybe, but you keep all your old planners and calendars, not hardly, unless of course you are a very very organized young man.
Democrats put up Sotomyer, Ginsburg, the other no name....and get 90 votes.
We put up Thomas, Gorsuch, etc...and barely get these people in....
“A very organized ambitious young man who didn’t have a computer back then. Ever heard of a planner?”
Yeah, but who the hell keeps planners from HIGH SCHOOL? And 36 years after the fact, at that!
No need for a planner... he came from a well-off family, but even then several of us had one or other of these 1984 computers -
And don't forget the famous “1984” Apple computer ad in the Super Bowl.
Additionally, the Commodore 64 was released two years earlier and my engineering/software buddies had been building their own S-100 machines for at least five years.
exactly. girls keep diaries; boys keep planners.
I’m a bit older that the nominee, but at time was several years into both the Apple II and Apple II+. These were late 70s machines, and quite capable of keeping calendars. My guess I have disks with calendars from those years. College was a bit earlier, but as someone who writes things down due to a mediocre memory, if computers were around, I’d probably have calendars somewhere. It’s not odd.
Actually they are still selling them to this day
And then came the Palm Pilot, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
Al Gore got one of the first style of phones, a blackberry, just before he was going to publicly concede to Geo Bush in their run for the presidency in 2000.
As he was on his way he got a text telling him to not concede because they could steal the election.
This was when I first got involved in protesting; going to rallies at the CA capitol (Sacramento) and Fresno, CA. (Home of the Free Republic Towers)
Eventually he conceded.
Oh and he invented the internets...