View Full Version : Which US President was in office when YOU were born? So?
AtLast
10-12-2010, 03:47 PM
Yeah, I'm going through an age-related life contemplation phase... or rite of passage…
Was thinking that Harry S Truman was president of the US the year I was born and what significance this has on my development. Obviously, I'm a baby-boomer and grew up prior to the Civil Rights legislation during the 60's (and in the middle of this time), before cell phones and even personal computers. Also when ethnic pride was blooming along with racial pride. So many other things that had such an impact, yet, cannot possibly be understood by many today. But, younger folks will be say the very same thing eventually!
But, what strikes me the most is that I was born while the only leader of a developed nation, actually ordered the use of the atomic bomb, changing the world forever. I grew up learning how to roll under my school desks in case of atomic bomb attacks and had neighbors building bomb shelters in their back yards. I was a very anxious child anyway due to other things, but, this certainly had something to do with my life-long awareness of we really don't know if our lives and world can just cease at any one given moment. Makes for a lot of introspection and plain uncertainty about how I treat others and tell those I love that, I indeed, do.
It's all about cycles, the never ending meeting of past and present!
So, who was president when you were born- and for others outside of the US, who was Prime Minister, President, or whatever title your highest ranking head of state is, when you came into this world? What significance do you believe this has had on how you developed in your world?
Was born a month after JFK was assassinated, so Johnson.
Cowboi
10-12-2010, 04:00 PM
Dwight D. Eisenhower
shadows papa
10-12-2010, 04:04 PM
I was born in 1967, right around the end of Lyndon Johnson's first full term. Probably somewhere close to when he said he "would not seek nor accept the Democratic nomination" for the 1968 election.
Isadora
10-12-2010, 04:06 PM
Eisenhower
Blade
10-12-2010, 04:11 PM
JFK.............
Apocalipstic
10-12-2010, 04:13 PM
I was born in June before JFK died.
My first clear memory of the President of the US was Richard M Nixon and Watergate...and in Argentina the return of Juan Peron in 1973, complete with casket of dead wife Evita paraded around to all the provinces, embalmed for 20 some years in an open casket.
I also remember being very upset and frightened by the Cold War and Nuclear proliferation. That the US is who dropped the bombs all suppsedly in the name of Peace still seems too horrible to really contemplate.
I do very vaguely remember about Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King being killed...it was a very frightening time we were born into.
What I remember most clearly was the fighting in the streets of San Juan and Buenos Aires leading up to Peron's election and then his death and the subsequent reign of terror of his fifth grade educated wife Vice President Estellita. I remember her on television declaring Martial Law and I remember the coup when she was removed from office. I remember our school guards with uzis and people being kidnapped right and left.
We moved to the US with Gerald Ford as President and filled with hope as Jimmy Carter insisted on walking part of the innagural parade.
Rockinonahigh
10-12-2010, 04:13 PM
Eisenhower,I think, cause I was born in 1947.But it was JFK who really made me aware of how things were,the day he was assinatede I was in jr high gym class...the world changed that day and hasent been the same nor will it ever be again the safe world I knew.
wolfbittenpoet
10-12-2010, 04:13 PM
At the end of Reagan for me.
1969: Canada--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
He was in his second year of office.
Greyson
10-12-2010, 04:25 PM
1969: Canada--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
He was in his second year of office.
Richard Nixon was president in the USA during part of Trudeau's tenure. I did not vote for Nixion. I voted for McGovern when Nixion ran for his second term. The U.S. just lowered the voting age to 18.
Eisehhower was the president when I was born in the mid 50s. JFK was elected when I was in the second grade. His was the first political campaign that caught my attention and enthusiasim. I was in 4th grade when he was assassinated. I was in junior high when RFK and MLK were assassinated.
The Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles is where RFK was pronounced dead. The hospital was literally a couple of blocks from where I lived. It was a very, very sad time when we lost all three of these visionaries.
waxnrope
10-12-2010, 04:36 PM
That was so long ago, I don't remember :blink:
squeak
10-12-2010, 04:40 PM
Ronald Reagan for me. But I don't remember being cognizant of anything political during that time.
Much to my horror, I was all for Bush Sr during the Bush/Clinton election solely because he looked like a sad grandpa. I was 8! Gimme a break.
The first time I participated and could vote was in the Gore/Bush Jr. election and I was absolutely devastated when my candidate wasn't elected and immediately thereafter I saw a lot of my burgeoning rights quashed. My belief in the 'your vote makes a difference!' mantra was deflated for a while.
xosqueak
Corkey
10-12-2010, 05:10 PM
Ike
:) I'm old
Am ashamed to say I had to look this up. It was Eisenhower.
Have no recollection of knowing or being affected by anything political until the Kennedy assassination. And didnt have an interest in politics until McGovern.
Arwen
10-12-2010, 05:23 PM
JFK was president when I was born. Harold MacMillan was the British PM.
Legendryder
10-12-2010, 05:45 PM
Johnson was the pres when I was hatched. I still remember Vietnam on the news, Walter Cronkite. And that's the way it was.
always2late
10-12-2010, 05:47 PM
Lyndon Johnson
princessbelle
10-12-2010, 05:49 PM
JFK was president. He died the day after my first birthday.
A huge pic of my mom was on the front page of our paper, crying. With the headlines "Kennedy Assassinated". Still have that paper. Goodness it's old now. lol.
Isadora
10-12-2010, 05:49 PM
That was so long ago, I don't remember :blink:
hahahahaha yes you do.
Was Eisenhower for me as well :thumbsup:
Semantics
10-12-2010, 05:57 PM
Jimmy Carter.
I have no recollection of this, of course, but I remember his successor well. Many of my childhood memories involve my extremely liberal parents and their friends discussing Reagan.
I also went to school with two boys who had AIDS during the time of Ryan White. Both of them died in the early nineties and I always wonder if their lives would have been healthier and prolonged had the political climate been different. HIV and AIDS were reduced to a moral issue rather than a medical one and so many lives were lost because of it.
Gayla
10-12-2010, 06:16 PM
Johnson.
Medicare is 9 days older than me. I am the same age as "Miranda v. Arizona". I am a year older than the Super Bowl.
I remember watching Vietnam and the lunar landing on TV. Nixon and Watergate are some of the first political things I remember. Mondale was the first presidential candidate I voted for.
Gemme
10-12-2010, 06:18 PM
I'm spoiled. I was expecting a quiz or link where I could just plug stuff in, but noooooo, ATH has to make me THINK. :|
I doublechecked to make sure I could count. I initially couldn't remember what month it was that he resigned. It was Nixon.
Greyson
10-12-2010, 06:23 PM
Lincoln .........
LOL!!!!! You are soooooo funny.
Sparkle
10-12-2010, 06:23 PM
I was born during Nixon's swan song....
It was a pretty dire time in the United States and the rest of the world....the oil embargo; wars and the preludes to wars we are still fighting in the Middle East in an attempt to control oil; deepest darkest cold war and recession and rationing. (& some truly bad fashion).
The socio-political and economic climate when I was born certainly influenced how I was raised and how we lived our lives. In many ways I'm grateful that the economic circumstances meant my mother and I lived with my grandparents and that we were part of a close/supportive extended family; I benefited from that in ways my siblings (who were born later) did not.
wolfbittenpoet
10-12-2010, 06:24 PM
Lincoln .........
So was that his first or his second term? And how did you like Ulysses S Grant growing up?
Greyson
10-12-2010, 06:25 PM
I doublechecked to make sure I could count. I initially couldn't remember what month it was that he resigned. It was Nixon.
I remember he resigned in August of 74. I was in Job Corp and my roomies hated me for insisting we watch it on the old broken down black and white T.V.
Miss Scarlett
10-12-2010, 06:30 PM
Was Eisenhower for me as well :thumbsup:
Me too.
Love to tease my older brother about how there were 48 states when he was born and 50 when I was - by a mere 6 weeks...LOL
Lyndon Johnson. I was born just a little over two months after Kennedy was killed.
TickledPink
10-12-2010, 07:39 PM
1968---Lyndon B Johnson
Greyson
10-12-2010, 07:44 PM
It just occurred to me if Dwight Eisenhower was the president when I was born, Nixon was the Vice President at the time. Do any of you remember Nixion's first Vice President when he was prez? Agnew. Another name in history that was forced to resign. Gerald Ford was his second Vice President while Nixion served as the President.
shadows papa
10-12-2010, 08:08 PM
Ford was the only person to be both Vice President and President without being elected to either office. He was appointed to succeed Spiro Agnew and finished out Nixon's second term after Nixon resigned...sorry for the derail...I'm such a history wonk!!:|
rainintothesea
10-12-2010, 08:17 PM
Jimmy Carter.
dreadgeek
10-12-2010, 08:37 PM
I was born at the height of the Johnson administration, just about six weeks after the Apollo 1 crew died in a fire on the launchpad during a routine test. The first President I remember is Nixon because of the Watergate hearings. I actually named the dog Tip after Tip O'Neil. The first President I voted for was Bush the Elder and the only Republican I've ever voted for at the national level.
Linus
10-12-2010, 08:49 PM
1969: Canada--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
He was in his second year of office.
I was a year later but before the October Crisis.
As far as Presidnts go, it was Nixon. In fact, my birthday was the day the laid charges in regards to the Mai Lay (sp?) massacre.
suebee
10-12-2010, 09:09 PM
Eisenhower. I remember when I was in my first year of grade school, riding home with a friend in her father's car, hearing about the shooting of President Kennedy on the radio. I didn't understand why we couldn't go to see him in the hospital. I didn't realize that the world had just changed - forever.
katsarecool
10-12-2010, 09:28 PM
Eisenhower. I remember when I was in my first year of grade school, riding home with a friend in her father's car, hearing about the shooting of President Kennedy on the radio. I didn't understand why we couldn't go to see him in the hospital. I didn't realize that the world had just changed - forever.
That makes two of us!
Oiler41
10-12-2010, 09:46 PM
JFK was in office. I was one year and nine months old when he was assasinated.
The first President I have a true recollection of was Nixon.
Glynn
TheBellyBionic
10-12-2010, 09:48 PM
I was born during the Carter administration (1976), but the first political event I can remember is the Iran-Contra hearings.
I was born in '77 and had to look up which President that was because I wasn't sure. Whoops! My dad, the retired U.S. History teacher will be so proud! :( The first President I remember is Reagan, which makes sense because he was President during the majority of my childhood.
:stillheart:
rockybcn
10-13-2010, 03:35 AM
Harry S. Truman
UofMfan
10-13-2010, 04:27 AM
During the Camelot administration. JFK.
IrishGrrl
10-13-2010, 06:04 AM
no way. If I tell who was president, then I will get called out when I turn 29 again on my next birthday!!!
:)
ravfem
10-13-2010, 06:20 AM
LBJ was president.
On my date of birth, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
The first political thing i remember is right after Jimmy Carter was elected president, my father took my brother & me to Plains, Ga. We "toured" the town, took pictures of each other on the steps of Carter's church, saw his brother Billy at the gas station where we stopped to buy roasted peanuts and "Billy Beer".
:hippie:
Jesse
10-13-2010, 10:14 AM
Eisenhower was in office the year I was born.
Ms. Tabitha
10-13-2010, 10:25 AM
Lyndon B Johnson
Venus007
10-14-2010, 05:44 AM
LBJ
Although the first president I remember was Ford because he drove through my home town and we went to see him drive by (there was also a parade)
Scorp
10-14-2010, 05:55 AM
Lyndon B. Johnson
chefhmboyrd
10-14-2010, 07:37 AM
my mother found out she was pregnant the day JFK was shot.
i was born the following July while LBJ was the president. i vaguely remember Robert and Martin being shot, and we moved to GB when i was 5. I do remember the Nixon years, and we moved back to the states in '74 around the time Ford took over.
Jimmy Carter was a big departure from the previous regime, and i remember there was real hope for the economy, then came Ronnie. i still remember all the hoopla about the hostages being released right after Reagan was elected. What a set up. Then the Iran contra business with North. Americans have very short attention spans and even shorter memories.
i pretty much stayed out of touch with politics as a result for many years. Then in 92 i drove all the way back to Chicago right after i moved to Nashville to help elect Clinton. good old Slick Willie managed to not only balance the budget but actually have money left over. Of course the big business and republicans didn't like that so........
We all know that Money runs this country and even more so now that a Company can throw it's entire weight and profit to buy an office.
I just hope the tea baggers keep spewing their BS. give em enough rope............
diamondrose
10-14-2010, 08:18 AM
Ronald Reagan was President when I was born :D
CherryFemme
10-14-2010, 02:43 PM
Franklin D. Roosevelt took the office of the Pres. of the USA in 1933 and held the position until 1945.
I will let you do the math on how old I am by yourself-- as I do not like to publically disclose such matters.
after all...
The only thing I have to fear is fear itself...
:)
:eatinghersheybar:
~CF
I was born about a month after Ike took the oath of office.
Jimmy Carter was president.
citybutch
10-14-2010, 05:24 PM
Eisenhower....
I remember the day JFK was assasinated... it is one of my earliest memories... and certainly the earliest political event I remember...
JustJo
10-14-2010, 05:39 PM
Jimmy Carter was president.
Yikes! Jimmy Carter was the first president I voted for :giggle:
JFK was in office when I was born.
I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV...and Watergate.. :seeingstars:
Greyson
10-14-2010, 06:05 PM
Something that is missing here is the obvious. No woman president in the USA, yet. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by either the Democract or Republican Party for Vice President. She ran with Mondale. The year was 1984, the Democractic Convention was at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was in town with the Stone Wall Democratic Club from Los Angeles. We were young and so full of hope and idealistic.
Now I am older, still working and hoping to see a woman elected as the President of the USA. Am I still idealistic? I'm trying to be.
chefhottie25
10-14-2010, 08:16 PM
gerald ford after the whole nixon scandal
atomiczombie
10-14-2010, 08:23 PM
Richard Nixon. Bletch.
AtLast
10-15-2010, 04:12 AM
Something that is missing here is the obvious. No woman president in the USA, yet. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by either the Democract or Republican Party for Vice President. She ran with Mondale. The year was 1984, the Democractic Convention was at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was in town with the Stone Wall Democratic Club from Los Angeles. We were young and so full of hope and idealistic.
Now I am older, still working and hoping to see a woman elected as the President of the USA. Am I still idealistic? I'm trying to be.
Nope... it WILL happen! This made me think of Shirley Chisholm... the first black woman elected to Congress in 1972, and the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (Margaret Chase Smith Republican presidential nomination, previously).
Not until Hillary Clinton's bid in 2008 has there been a major-party candidate for president! All those years in between!
AtLast
10-15-2010, 04:21 AM
my mother found out she was pregnant the day JFK was shot.
i was born the following July while LBJ was the president. i vaguely remember Robert and Martin being shot, and we moved to GB when i was 5. I do remember the Nixon years, and we moved back to the states in '74 around the time Ford took over.
Jimmy Carter was a big departure from the previous regime, and i remember there was real hope for the economy, then came Ronnie. i still remember all the hoopla about the hostages being released right after Reagan was elected. What a set up. Then the Iran contra business with North. Americans have very short attention spans and even shorter memories.
i pretty much stayed out of touch with politics as a result for many years. Then in 92 i drove all the way back to Chicago right after i moved to Nashville to help elect Clinton. good old Slick Willie managed to not only balance the budget but actually have money left over. Of course the big business and republicans didn't like that so........
We all know that Money runs this country and even more so now that a Company can throw it's entire weight and profit to buy an office.
I just hope the tea baggers keep spewing their BS. give em enough rope............
So true about a 'set up" with what happened with Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostages! You know, we sure do have short attention spans a very short memories! Especially in politics. I hated it that Carter was a one-termer. The man is brilliant.
LOL.. Slick Willie! Thanks for the post.
Zimmeh
10-15-2010, 05:58 AM
Nixon was in office when I was born in December of 1973. I was 8 when Reagan took office.
Kätzchen
10-15-2010, 01:31 PM
D. D. E i s e n h o w e r
AtLast
10-15-2010, 07:32 PM
D. D. E i s e n h o w e r
I have been thinking a lot about "Ike" in the past few years. Probably because I do remember the GOP as a very different party from my youth. He took office when I was 2 years old and left when I was 8 when JFK was elected. My family has always been Democrats, except I now see portions that broke to the GOP during Reagan's terms. The main reason? Money as that part of the family began to make a bunch of it under his presidency and most certainly under Bush I & II. Many of these relatives were staunch Union Democrats in the 30's-50's. Yet, today, are like most Republicans above that $250,000/year level, they are terrified of losing their wealth. I thank the Goddesses that these relatives live way far away from me. But, they are related to me. Many do have questionable backrounds in the "mob."
Dwight D Eisenhower here too
citybutch
10-16-2010, 09:59 AM
Under Ike the top marginal tax bracket was over 90% (yes, you read that right)... No matter who you are... THAT is not fair. A lot of folks who were staunch Democrats moved when Reagan promised ... and delivered ... income tax cuts.
The redistribution of wealth in this country is complex... and people's move between parties is motivated usually by the current political wind. But when folks who work their butts off for the income they have are deprived of those funds because of taxation... it leads to rage and financial decisions made to protect that money... As Warren Buffet complained... "he paid a 17.7% tax rate on his $46 million of taxable income in 2006, while his employees paid an average 32.9% tax rate (his receptionist's tax rate was 30%)." Warren Buffet wants to PAY MORE... and it speaks to the rationality of a flat tax rate. So now it is the middle income as opposed to the high income folks who are complaining... Hence the power of the Tea Party (please do not think I participate in any way... with that party... I don't... I am merely making some points)
My income is a good one... But I work my ass off... many weeks with no days off... I take risks, I work hard, I study when I am not working.... I know many of us work extremely hard.. no matter our income... But it just is not fair when more of the dollars that I work my ass off for is taken to redistribute. My wife as well.. has been an ER nurse of more than 20 years... Worked full time and studied 3/4 time to get her Master's... works two jobs now (one as a Family Nurse Practitioner in research and the other teaching young RN students) ... and to have half of her income disapear to government (State/Federal/Local, etc).... It's just not fair...
It is a lot harder these days to really "see" the truth of what is happening in the world around us. Whether you are on the right or on the left you are impacted by HOW the message is being delivered. That has always been true. The message delivered is far simpler than what the reality is...
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I have been thinking a lot about "Ike" in the past few years. Probably because I do remember the GOP as a very different party from my youth. He took office when I was 2 years old and left when I was 8 when JFK was elected. My family has always been Democrats, except I now see portions that broke to the GOP during Reagan's terms. The main reason? Money as that part of the family began to make a bunch of it under his presidency and most certainly under Bush I & II. Many of these relatives were staunch Union Democrats in the 30's-50's. Yet, today, are like most Republicans above that $250,000/year level, they are terrified of losing their wealth. I thank the Goddesses that these relatives live way far away from me. But, they are related to me. Many do have questionable backrounds in the "mob."
Leigh
10-16-2010, 10:21 AM
For american presidents, I was born when Jimmy Carter was in office
And for canadian prime ministers, I was born when Pierre Trudeau was in charge
JustBeingMe
11-01-2010, 09:18 PM
John F. Kennedy was in office when I was born.
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