Which President + Term were you born under? With a twist...

[Some Moran]

If you were born during the same or during a more recent administration as their preceding poster, you are only permitted to make comments about other posts and kick the topic: You cannot participate in the "game".

The goal? To find which DUer has lived under the most administrations.

I was born during Reagan's first administration. I feel better knowing that Trudeau was my PM during the same year. :)

[LSdemocrat]

1. Carter administration

December 1980

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

17. August 1980 for me

[Kellanved]

21. April

:hi:

[jono]

27. March

:hi:

[sreadtx1979]

26. January 1979

I was born in January 1979

[Droopy]

2. Nixon

October 1972

[Some Moran]

3. Nixon I then...

:)

[politicat]

4. Ford.

Yes, Ford. Early January 76.

Politicat (who is glad that only 1 year and 11 days had to pass before she got a new President.)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. June 1976 - Ford / Callaghan / Trudeau

[Whitacre D_WI]

34. March 10, 1975. Ford.

n/t

[MikeH]

5. Harry Truman

December 1950

[MariaS]

6. Eisenhower

Nato General

[Some Moran]

7. You have been FREEPED!

Truman came before Eisenhower. Sorry...

:-P

[MariaS]

8. Sorry

Slow on the post Truman beat me to it

[Some Moran]

9. It's okay...:)

But you're still freeped...muahaha :)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. "Beware the military-industrial complex" Eisenhower.

Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. He pursued the moderate policies of "Modern Republicanism," pointing out as he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world."

Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.

In his early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942; on D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France.

After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in 1952.

"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan; Eisenhower won a sweeping victory.

Negotiating from military strength, he tried to reduce the strains of the Cold War. In 1953, the signing of a truce brought an armed peace along the border of South Korea. The death of Stalin the same year caused shifts in relations with Russia.

New Russian leaders consented to a peace treaty neutralizing Austria. Meanwhile, both Russia and the United States had developed hydrogen bombs. With the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, with the leaders of the British, French, and Russian governments, met at Geneva in July 1955.

The President proposed that the United States and Russia exchange blueprints of each other's military establishments and "provide within our countries facilities for aerial photography to the other country." The Russians greeted the proposal with silence, but were so cordial throughout the meetings that tensions relaxed.

Suddenly, in September 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver, Colorado. After seven weeks he left the hospital, and in February 1956 doctors reported his recovery. In November he was elected for his second term.

In domestic policy the President pursued a middle course, continuing most of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, emphasizing a balanced budget. As desegregation of schools began, he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to assure compliance with the orders of a Federal court; he also ordered the complete desegregation of the Armed Forces. "There must be no second class citizens in this country," he wrote.

Eisenhower concentrated on maintaining world peace. He watched with pleasure the development of his "atoms for peace" program--the loan of American uranium to "have not" nations for peaceful purposes.

Before he left office in January 1961, for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life. He concluded with a prayer for peace "in the goodness of time." Both themes remained timely and urgent when he died, after a long illness, on March 28, 1969.

<snip>

He was an okay Republican with good advice for JFK.

[DivinBreuvage]

11. George Washington

And you'd better believe this AARP sellout has my petticoats in a twist.

Françoise

[KC21304]

12. FDR

Feb, l943

Guess I ended that with a bang. Unless we have someone born in 1932 or before.

REread the rules. Someone born in FDR's earlier terms would win.

[salin]

13. I would be much more likely to answer this... in poll form

allows a tiny bit of anonymity (and age-related mystery.)

[Some Moran]

14. lol...Well sorry...

You can't get a gold star by donating $5 semi-anonymously.

[ClintonTyree]

15. Eisenhower..............

my first political recolection was the Kennedy/Nixon debates. Kennedy was my hero, and then...........

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

16. delete please

[Nailzberg]

18. Not sure I understand the rules, but I think I have to exclude myself.

Cause I ain't anywhere near Ike.

:kick:

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Dwight Eisenhower. But I think my parents thought it was safe to start a

family once Sen. Joseph McCarthy was dead.

[emad]

20. Ike, 2nd term

I liked his predecessor a lot more!

[mac56]

22. Ike, first term.

nm

[emad]

24. I was going to say I wasn't born under a president but a hospital

blanket but then I read the posts and towed the DU line...

[RebelOne]

23. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 1st term

What do I win?

[pscot]

31. You win

the privilege of being older than dirt. I was born during FDR's 2nd term.

[bobbieinok]

32. FDR's 3rd term

...

[supernova]

25. John F Kennedy

July 1962

[MrsMatt]

35. Me too - during the Cuban missle crisis

n/t

[bleedingheart]

28. Nixon

[VermontDem2004]

30. I lost

I doubt I can find anyone born in the Bush or Clinton administration here on DU.

[LynneSin]

33. LBJ - First Elected Term

Woohoo - I'm the first LBJer

[dolo amber]

38. LBJ baby here

:hi:

[arwalden]

36. Eisenhower... does that mean I'm old?

July 1960... Kennedy was just months away from winning the general election.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. Yeah baby you're old but not as old as me

Same pres..different year :D

[geniph]

39. It means you're slightly younger than I am

:-) since I was born in the tail end of 1959.

[Zomby Woof]

40. Warren G. Harding

*creak*

[Loonman]

41. Nixon's the one!

Blechh!

[youngred]

42. Ray-Gun's First

1983