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

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by Organicbutch

Jimmy Carter was president.

Yikes! Jimmy Carter was the first president I voted for

JFK was in office when I was born.
I remember watching the Vietnam war on TV...and Watergate..

[Greyson]

Something that is missing here is the obvious. No woman president in the USA, yet. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by either the Democract or Republican Party for Vice President. She ran with Mondale. The year was 1984, the Democractic Convention was at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was in town with the Stone Wall Democratic Club from Los Angeles. We were young and so full of hope and idealistic.

Now I am older, still working and hoping to see a woman elected as the President of the USA. Am I still idealistic? I'm trying to be.

[chefhottie25]

gerald ford after the whole nixon scandal

[atomiczombie]

Richard Nixon. Bletch.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Greyson

Something that is missing here is the obvious. No woman president in the USA, yet. Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by either the Democract or Republican Party for Vice President. She ran with Mondale. The year was 1984, the Democractic Convention was at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I was in town with the Stone Wall Democratic Club from Los Angeles. We were young and so full of hope and idealistic.

Now I am older, still working and hoping to see a woman elected as the President of the USA. Am I still idealistic? I'm trying to be.

Nope... it WILL happen! This made me think of Shirley Chisholm... the first black woman elected to Congress in 1972, and the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (Margaret Chase Smith Republican presidential nomination, previously).

Not until Hillary Clinton's bid in 2008 has there been a major-party candidate for president! All those years in between!

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by chefhmboyrd

my mother found out she was pregnant the day JFK was shot.

i was born the following July while LBJ was the president. i vaguely remember Robert and Martin being shot, and we moved to GB when i was 5. I do remember the Nixon years, and we moved back to the states in '74 around the time Ford took over.
Jimmy Carter was a big departure from the previous regime, and i remember there was real hope for the economy, then came Ronnie. i still remember all the hoopla about the hostages being released right after Reagan was elected. What a set up. Then the Iran contra business with North. Americans have very short attention spans and even shorter memories.
i pretty much stayed out of touch with politics as a result for many years. Then in 92 i drove all the way back to Chicago right after i moved to Nashville to help elect Clinton. good old Slick Willie managed to not only balance the budget but actually have money left over. Of course the big business and republicans didn't like that so........
We all know that Money runs this country and even more so now that a Company can throw it's entire weight and profit to buy an office.

I just hope the tea baggers keep spewing their BS. give em enough rope............

So true about a 'set up" with what happened with Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostages! You know, we sure do have short attention spans a very short memories! Especially in politics. I hated it that Carter was a one-termer. The man is brilliant.

LOL.. Slick Willie! Thanks for the post.

[Zimmeh]

Nixon was in office when I was born in December of 1973. I was 8 when Reagan took office.

[Kätzchen]

D. D. E i s e n h o w e r

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by ALovelyKiss

D. D. E i s e n h o w e r

I have been thinking a lot about "Ike" in the past few years. Probably because I do remember the GOP as a very different party from my youth. He took office when I was 2 years old and left when I was 8 when JFK was elected. My family has always been Democrats, except I now see portions that broke to the GOP during Reagan's terms. The main reason? Money as that part of the family began to make a bunch of it under his presidency and most certainly under Bush I & II. Many of these relatives were staunch Union Democrats in the 30's-50's. Yet, today, are like most Republicans above that $250,000/year level, they are terrified of losing their wealth. I thank the Goddesses that these relatives live way far away from me. But, they are related to me. Many do have questionable backrounds in the "mob."

[Ben]

Dwight D Eisenhower here too

[citybutch]

Under Ike the top marginal tax bracket was over 90% (yes, you read that right)... No matter who you are... THAT is not fair. A lot of folks who were staunch Democrats moved when Reagan promised ... and delivered ... income tax cuts.

The redistribution of wealth in this country is complex... and people's move between parties is motivated usually by the current political wind. But when folks who work their butts off for the income they have are deprived of those funds because of taxation... it leads to rage and financial decisions made to protect that money... As Warren Buffet complained... "he paid a 17.7% tax rate on his $46 million of taxable income in 2006, while his employees paid an average 32.9% tax rate (his receptionist's tax rate was 30%)." Warren Buffet wants to PAY MORE... and it speaks to the rationality of a flat tax rate. So now it is the middle income as opposed to the high income folks who are complaining... Hence the power of the Tea Party (please do not think I participate in any way... with that party... I don't... I am merely making some points)

My income is a good one... But I work my ass off... many weeks with no days off... I take risks, I work hard, I study when I am not working.... I know many of us work extremely hard.. no matter our income... But it just is not fair when more of the dollars that I work my ass off for is taken to redistribute. My wife as well.. has been an ER nurse of more than 20 years... Worked full time and studied 3/4 time to get her Master's... works two jobs now (one as a Family Nurse Practitioner in research and the other teaching young RN students) ... and to have half of her income disapear to government (State/Federal/Local, etc).... It's just not fair...


It is a lot harder these days to really "see" the truth of what is happening in the world around us. Whether you are on the right or on the left you are impacted by HOW the message is being delivered. That has always been true. The message delivered is far simpler than what the reality is...

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I have been thinking a lot about "Ike" in the past few years. Probably because I do remember the GOP as a very different party from my youth. He took office when I was 2 years old and left when I was 8 when JFK was elected. My family has always been Democrats, except I now see portions that broke to the GOP during Reagan's terms. The main reason? Money as that part of the family began to make a bunch of it under his presidency and most certainly under Bush I & II. Many of these relatives were staunch Union Democrats in the 30's-50's. Yet, today, are like most Republicans above that $250,000/year level, they are terrified of losing their wealth. I thank the Goddesses that these relatives live way far away from me. But, they are related to me. Many do have questionable backrounds in the "mob."

[Leigh]

For american presidents, I was born when Jimmy Carter was in office

And for canadian prime ministers, I was born when Pierre Trudeau was in charge

[JustBeingMe]

John F. Kennedy was in office when I was born.