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

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, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

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.

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.

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