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

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.

waxnrope · 10-12-2010, 04:36 PM

That was so long ago, I don't remember

Isadora · 10-12-2010, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by waxnrope

That was so long ago, I don't remember

hahahahaha yes you do.

T D · 10-12-2010, 05:54 PM

Was Eisenhower for me as well

Miss Scarlett · 10-12-2010, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by T D

Was Eisenhower for me as well

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

Hack · 10-12-2010, 07:15 PM

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

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

Liam · 10-12-2010, 05:02 PM

Dwight David Eisenhower

Corkey · 10-12-2010, 05:10 PM

Ike

I'm old

Kobi · 10-12-2010, 05:10 PM

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

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.

Linus · 10-12-2010, 08:49 PM

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by suebee

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.

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