AND THIS IS WHERE MY MEMORIES BEGIN
Jason Pettus
It’s 1975. I’m looking at a calendar from McDonnell Douglas that dad’s brought home and put on my bedroom door. It shows the entire year at one glance, and it’s taller than me. And the whole calendar is done in the same font as the McDonnell Douglas logo, which I figure out later in life is Swiss Expanded, but at the time just struck me as a really cool font. And I remember this, I remember this very clearly, I remember staring at September, right at eye level, and thinking:
“Ford is the President of the United States.”
And then I thought:
“I wonder what a President is.”
