Which US President was in office when YOU were born? So?
 

Was born a month after JFK was assassinated, so Johnson.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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.

At the end of Reagan for me.

1968-1979
 

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.

That was so long ago, I don't remember :blink:

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

Dwight David Eisenhower

Johnson was the pres when I was hatched. I still remember Vietnam on the news, Walter Cronkite. And that's the way it was.

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.

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.

LOL!!!!! You are soooooo funny.

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.

So was that his first or his second term? And how did you like Ulysses S Grant growing up?

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Johnson. I was born just a little over two months after Kennedy was killed.

1968---Lyndon B Johnson

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.

Eisenhower

Jimmy Carter.

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.

JFK was prez