Can you name the US presidents and UK PMs who held office at the same time and were both left wing or both right wing?

created by echelon66

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This quiz includes all pairs from the beginning of the 'Special Relationship' between the US and UK. Matching parties are Democrat/Labour and Republican/Conservative. Enter last names of both leaders.
Source: The Special Relationship

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Year	President/PM	Left or Right?
1946-1951		Left Wing
1953-1955		Right Wing
1955-1957		Right Wing
1957-1961		Right Wing
1964-1969		Left Wing
1970-1974		Right Wing
1977-1979		Left Wing
1981-1989		Right Wing
1989-1990		Right Wing
1990-1993		Right Wing
1997-2001		Left Wing
2009-2010		Left Wing

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Created May 7, 2011 in History
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	husky0406:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 16:47 GMT		24 points
	except there's a huge difference between the left wing in the UK and the "left wing" in America haha, and same goes for the right wing

	renbutler:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 17:49 GMT		16 points
	Hey, let's see if we can make it through the comments section without any snarky pro/anti political discussion. As hard as you try, you're really not going to change anybody's mind in the Sporcle comments section. And if you just really like arguing, I can point you to many other places on the web where the BS runs deep.

	Leeny:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 20:40 GMT		5 points
	@renbutler: not sure if this counts as snarky, but the first "special" relationship I thought of was Clinton/Lewinsky

	echelon66:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT		2 points
	@renbutler perhaps people will view this as an interesting take on the US presidents quiz and UK Prime Ministers quizzes combined? Nope, to be honest i'm expecting cheap political pot-shots from here on out. What can you do?

	ChileNoseJam:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 22:58 GMT		8 points
	Nice job. It embarrasses me somewhat that, despite being from the UK, I recalled the presidents more easily than the PMs - I have no problem remembering all the presidents since WWII (I usually forget a few earlier than that) but it took me ages to think of Eden.

	smartster:	Aug 10th, 2011 at 02:00 GMT		5 points
	I was really mad I didn't get the Eisenhower/Eden one.

	cuccir:	Aug 10th, 2011 at 11:30 GMT		13 points
	I never want to write the words, or think of, 'Thatcher-Bush' again.

	WeaselKing1000:	Aug 10th, 2011 at 14:59 GMT		4 points
	@echelon66 You mean 'cheap political pot-shots from here on IN'. That's the UK phraseology :P

	transitfan:	Aug 11th, 2011 at 15:00 GMT		3 points
	I had a hard time with this quiz because I generally don't think of many of these leaders as "left wing."

	gvigary:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 20:19 GMT		5 points
	Well I enjoyed it and as an Americophile Brit, only a mental block on old Clem stopped me cleaning up! BTW Bush and Blair had the most important "special relationship" since Maggie & Ronnie, but based on religion (and an overblown sense of their own importance) rather than political ideology.

	foolishchild:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 23:06 GMT		1 point
	Took ages to remember Jimmy Carter, slightly worrying that I could recall more recent US presidents than my own recent P.M's.

	Theron:	Nov 7th, 2011 at 15:09 GMT		2 points
	Argh. Tripped up by the double-t in Attlee. I never remember that.

	JamesSnell:	Nov 13th, 2011 at 18:36 GMT		3 points
	Very interesting, but the cross-Atlantic Left/Left Right/Right never really link up, for example JFK, an enormous liberal by other standards, was nowhere nearly as pro-Communism as some British Labour politicians. Indeed the Left-wing Presidents were hugely more pro war and conflict that any self-respecting UK Liberal, who still wanted to continue Khrushchev's phrase of 'Peaceful Co-existence.'

	woodworm99:	Oct 5th, 2012 at 14:24 GMT		2 points
	The red-blue thing always confuses me. On US election nights I always think 'wow, look at all those western states voting labour ... oh wait ...'

	bluecanada:	Jan 28th, 2013 at 01:31 GMT		1 point
	hehe... I typed in 'major bush'.