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?

Jess · 10-12-2010, 03:49 PM

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

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.

Soon · 10-12-2010, 04:16 PM

1969: Canada--Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

He was in his second year of office.

Greyson · 10-12-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

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.

Linus · 10-12-2010, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

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.

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".

Jesse · 10-13-2010, 10:14 AM

Eisenhower was in office the year I was born.

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.

Sam · 10-12-2010, 06:28 PM

Lyndon B. Johnson

Blade · 10-12-2010, 04:11 PM

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

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.

Jet · 10-12-2010, 07:47 PM

Eisenhower

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.

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