Who was president when you were born?

[KitchenWitch]

Lyndon Johnson here!

[LSK]

1. Nixon here (1972)

[ThatsMyBarack]

93. Me, too!

:hi:

I was born in 1971.

[momophile]

101. Nixon too! nt

[conflictgirl]

115. Me too - I was born about 6 months before he resigned. nt

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Eisenhower.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Jimmy Carter.

His last year in office.

[hickman1937]

4. I have no idea. 1955.

I used to be a history major. Truman?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Eisenhower.

[hickman1937]

16. I lied. I was born in 53.

Eisenhower. Dumped Viet-Nam on JFK. He had a plan, and Nixon was supposed to fix it, but he lost.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

17. Was it that secret plan?

[Lost4words]

34. Eisenhower.

[proud2BlibKansan]

102. Hey me too

What month? I was born in September.

[benny05]

92. Ike

But not for long...

[KitchenWitch]

8. Ike!

[SofaKingLiberal]

5. Carter

[leftofthedial]

6. Millard Fillmore

actually Ike.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

9. I was going to say Martin Van Buren.

[leftstreet]

10. Sputnik

[NMMNG]

11. Lyndon Johnson here as well n/t

[evlbstrd]

12. Eisenhower.

[LeftyMom]

13. Ronnie Raygun.

:(

[Robeson]

15. Wow, LeftyMom. I'm very, very sorry to hear that. I don't believe in....

...karma, or anything like that, but, that's pretty bad karma....:silly:

[LeftyMom]

18. Yep

The fucking Raiders won the Super Bowl that year too. Good thing I happened to balance out all that bad karma.

[last_texas_dem]

27. I'm a Raygun baby, too

Although my memory seems to kick in about the time he was leaving office. I remember thinking Bush, Sr., was a really awful guy because I was watching the '88 election returns come in with my mom and she was very sad that Bush was winning and saying stuff like that she didn't know if we were going to make it through four more years of this, etc.

I was five years old at the time, and that's probably my earliest political memory. Perhaps it had an influence!

[realisticphish]

32. ?

leftyMOM and born in the 80's? I need to stop associating "mom" with old farts :silly:

[LeftyMom]

53. I'm 24.

LeftyKid is four. I got started young. :blush:

[Allenberg]

56. Ditto.

Minus the kid :D

[kitkatrose]

85. Me too.

:( Thank God I was three when he left and have no memory whatsoever of him, except for my sister being born. :)

[LeftyMom]

88. I date back to the other end of his presidency

He was elected while my mother was pregnant. I had no idea how scary and depressing that mush have been for her until I was hugely pregnant and watching the * coronation on TV, crying and very worried about my child's future.

[deadparrot]

111. Same.

:(

[drhilarius]

14. Jimmy Carter in 1978. nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Ike

Second term. Barely.

[The Flaming Red Head]

20. JFK but they killed him a month after I was born. nt

[Lefty48197]

66. Six months after I was born.

.

[Err]

21. Ronald Reagan.

:puke:

[Race4Peace]

22. sen~or senior sinner(1990)

Bush I

[WritingIsMyReligion]

42. Hey, me too!

A year later, but still the same wacko!

:D

[Err]

74. You two are young'uns.

:wow:

And I thought I was young here on the DU (23)!

[Arkana]

80. I'm younger than you! 20 years old, 21 in April

but I'm still old compared to some of the people here! :P

[Err]

83. Gosh...

now I feel old. :evilfrown:

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. Dwight D. President

I was one of the last of the 50's kids (May, 1959)

I remember specifically being told Kennedy was shot and i started crying cause John John lost his daddy.
Within a month we moved to South Florida from the DC area. Dad was CIA and the efforts in Cuba that subsequently intensified were directed and based from Dade County.

[ashling]

24. Harry S. Truman

by God!

[yellowdogintexas]

73. Another For Truman, here. 1948.

My mom was still in the hospital on Election Day and did not get to vote for him. I am not sure she ever forgave me.

[ashling]

112. Well, you could have timed your entry better!

However, my mother said she elected him single handedly. he he

She was from Philadelphia MS, and stationed at the VA hospital in Jackson, MS.

[BrotherBuzz]

96. Truman here, too.

although he was a lamb duck and Ike was waiting in the wing when I was born.

[Faygo Kid]

100. Yep, Truman. Hip transplant in February.

The hell with these young whippersnappers. What?

[BamaGirl]

25. Nixon nt

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

October 20, 1953.

Ike was the only Republican my beloved Daddy had any respect for.

In his opinion Ike was the only one who didn't f*ck up WWII.

He did the job in Europe, but don't even ask about "Dugout Doug".

[JuneInJax]

28. Eisenhower

2nd term. Nov. 1957 to be preciser.
:)
Moni

[In_The_Wind]

29. Harry S Truman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1948

www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760617.html

[In_The_Wind]

36. Oops, Truman was elected following Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

FDR was actually our president the day I was born.

[Syncronaut Seven]

30. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A real President, leader and human being.

[realisticphish]

31. Ronnie for me

fucker's responsible for laying off my dad when i was 2

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Richard Milhouse Nixon

Good evening.

This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this Nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter than I believe affected the national interest.

In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.

In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.

But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served, and there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.

I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so. But the interest of the Nation must always come before any personal considerations.

From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the Nation would require.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.

To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.

As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next 2 1/2 years. But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford, I know, as I told the Nation when I nominated him for that office 10 months ago, that the leadership of America will be in good hands.

In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow and, therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.

As he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this Nation, to put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us, and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.

I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision. I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong, and some were wrong, they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the Nation.

To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, to many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support.

And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.

So, let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.

I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term, but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past 5 1/2 years. These years have been a momentous time in the history of our Nation and the world. They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the Administration, the Congress, and the people.

But the challenges ahead are equally great, and they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people working in cooperation with the new Administration.

We have ended America's longest war, but in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult. We must complete a structure of peace so that it will be said of this generation, our generation of Americans, by the people of all nations, not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.

We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

We must now ensure that the one quarter of the world's people who live in the People's Republic of China will be and remain not our enemies but our friends.

In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.

Together with the Soviet Union we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms. But we must set as our goal not just limiting but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons so that they cannot destroy civilization and so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.

We have opened the new relation with the Soviet Union. We must continue to develop and expand that new relationship so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.

Around the world, in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East, there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation. We must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a decent life.

Here in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good and, by the world's standards, even abundant lives. We must press on, however, toward a goal of not only more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every American and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve, prosperity without inflation.

For more than a quarter of a century in public life I have shared in the turbulent history of this era. I have fought for what I believed in. I have tried to the best of my ability to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.

Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."

I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that spirit. I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my years as a Congressman, a Senator, a Vice President, and President, the cause of peace not just for America but among all nations, prosperity, justice, and opportunity for all of our people.

There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.

When I first took the oath of office as President 5 1/2 years ago, I made this sacred commitment, to "consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations."

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.

This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency. This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American. In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.

[Seabiscuit]

35. FDR (if I had been born 3 weeks earlier)

Harry S. Truman was there when I plopped into this world.

[Left_Winger]

37. Eisenhower

[NMDemDist2]

38. Eisenhower n/t

[two gun sid]

39. Ike.

JFK was elected 4 months later.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

40. Clin--NO. WAIT. GHWB was still in office until '92.

Damn. Oh well.

MUAHAHAHAHA!

[Lumily]

41. Nixon.

[name not needed]

43. Reagan

[Call Me Wesley]

44. Johnson. (nt)

[lizziegrace]

45. Kennedy n/t

[warrior1]

47. Ike

[Maestro]

46. LBJ as well. -nt

[Lady Effingbroke]

48. Nixon

[undeterred]

49. I'm not falling for that!

I will only say that he's passed away.

[CatholicEdHead]

50. Carter

[bikebloke]

51. Eisenhower

I didn't vote for him though.
;-)

[Eugene]

52. Kennedy

[GOPisEvil]

54. Lyndon B. Johnson

[rateyes]

55. The last year of Eisenhower's administration...

election year...Kennedy beat Nixon.

[anarch]

57. Tricky Dick

[Shine]

58. Lyndon Johnson, same here.

Of course, we knew that, being the same age 'n all...

:hi:
Good morning to you!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

59. FDR......

[TallahasseeGrannie]

60. Truman

[Trigger Hippie]

61. Ford.

One month before Carter was elected. :)

[Deja Q]

62. Nixon. Hot damn.

[Canadian Socialist]

63. I don't know...think it was Eisenhower

however, Louis St. Laurent was the Prime Minister.

[timtom]

64. FDR

n/t

[Ptah]

65. I never did give anybody hell.

I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.


Harry Truman was president.

As a Senator, Truman had traveled around the country going from one
defense industry factory to another to investigate charges that
executives were reaping unfair rewards. He later formed an
investigative committee that saved billions in military costs.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1201-30.htm

[flamingyouth]

67. Johnson. Nixon had been elected a month earlier, though.

[Not_Giving_Up]

Nixon

I remember being picked up from daycare and waiting in line for gas.

[gpandas]

68. roosevelt, ( franklin)

[Vidar]

69. Eisenhower

[WCGreen]

70. Ike......

[Lex]

71. Lyndon Johnson.

[woofless]

72. Harry Truman

Now there's a man who had the Republican's number.

Woof

[Greyhound]

75. Me too.

:evilfrown: :cry: :evilfrown:

[BreweryYardRat]

76. Reagan.

It was the last year of his term.

[Horus45]

77. JFK

[eeyore]

78. LBJ Here

But the first I actually remember is Ford.

Even at my early age I thought he was an ass! I imagine that had something to do with Chevy Chase playing him as a clutzy dolt on SNL.

[Arkana]

79. Raygun (1985).

[kitkatrose]

86. Hey, we're the same age!

:hi:

[Cleita]

81. Franklin D. Roosevelt here.

Yep, that long ago.

[Nikia]

82. Jimmy Carter

I was a toddler when Reagan became President. My parents and grandparents always watched the news so I frequently saw the president on television. For a while I thought that he was the same person, that he had just changed his appearance. I thought that with a couple game show hosts and television anchors who changed also.

[Blue_In_AK]

84. Harry Truman

I'm so old.

[maveric]

87. Ike. 1956.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

89. LBJ. In Brazil, some military thug undeserving of the 'President' title.

[MiniMandaRuth]

90. Either Bush 1 or Clinton.

[SmileyBoy]

108. DAMN, you're YOUNG!!!!

What're you doing on a politics board???:D

[Samurai_Writer]

91. JFK, baby

He was just elected in Nov. 1960. I was born in Dec. 1960. Don't remember the assasination, though, because I was not even 3 years old at the time.

[Missy Vixen]

94. Technically, Eisenhower, I was born in July of 1960 n/t

[bigwillq]

95. Carter (nt)

[TK421]

97. Ford

[trof]

98. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Yep.
I'm that old.

[DemoTex]

110. Truman .. ever so slightly.

Just behind the Trof. Ironically, I was born in Mobile, Alabama, near where Trof lives now.

Mac

[Nicole]

99. Eisenhower

[indypaul]

103. Herbert Hoover - 1931- n/t

[Left Is Write]

104. LBJ for me too.

[terrya]

105. Eisenhower n/t

[Xipe Totec]

106. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines

[SmileyBoy]

107. Raygun (Early)

:(

[philosophie_en_rose]

109. Carter, but just barely.

a few weeks before Reagan was sworn in,

[LSdemocrat]

114. Same here

[RevCheesehead]

113. JFK

The innocent years.

[sakabatou]

116. Ray-gun

:puke: