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

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

JFK.............

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.

1969: Canada--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

He was in his second year of office.

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Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow (Post 206812)

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

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.

JFK was president when I was born. Harold MacMillan was the British 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.

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.