who was the president when you were born?

[mopaul]

i was born under truman. (jeez!)

the one born under the president farthest back in history gets a prize!

what differences do you see between the presidents you remember as a kid, and the half man, half ape president we have now?

[travisleit01]

1. Reagan :(

[Endangered Specie]

2. Raygun.

[Tom_Foolery]

3. Eisenhower...n/t

[bobthedrummer]

4. Truman, I was born in 1949.

[UrbScotty]

5. St. Ronald Reagan

Many Republicans want to make him a saint.

[Xandor]

6. Truman, too. Jeez, indeed.

Geezers, we.

[El Supremo]

55. "Give 'em hell Harry" too.

But I only remember him from his morning walks in Independence. I lived in KC.

[BrotherBuzz]

107. The Buck Stops here - Truman

I've been corresponding with the Harry S. Truman Library and I get a real kick out of the fact that their postal meter stamp uses that line. George, you could learn something if you only knew how to read.

On edit: I was born during Truman's lame duck period - after the November 1952 election, but before Eisenhower was inaugurated.

[madmax]

7. Truman

[TOhioLiberal]

8. Kennedy....

1962. I would venture to say he was a damn sight better than the current occupant. Can you imagine Shrub handling the Cuban Missle Crisis? He would have said 'bring it on' and the Russians woulda!
What a moran!

[Dookus]

9. Kennedy

[Nite Owl]

10. Truman too.

A lot of us here.

[xray s]

11. Ike

I was born under the sign of the Big Fin :)

[Servo300]

12. Eisenhower n/t

[LostInAnomie]

13. George W. Bush

I'm 3 years old.

[mopaul]

19. well you're a very bright 3 year old

i too could read at age 3, just couldn't talk till age 12

[Endangered Specie]

28. Dont you mean Al Gore?

[LostInAnomie]

38. How the hell should I know?

I'm 3, I don't get into politics.

[TSIAS]

14. Reagan

[flamingyouth]

15. Nixon had just been elected

But Johnson was still in office.

[bikebloke]

16. Eisenhower

But Kennedy is thte first I remember. All the way back to his inauguration.

[Bombtrack]

17. Reagan

end of his first term

[Redbear]

18. Lyndon Johnson

I recall prior President's being statesmen. With the exception of Nixon, they believed the office itself and what it represented was more important than them as an individual. The only difference between Nixon and W is Dick's IQ was about 40 points higher.

[liberalhistorian]

47. Another Johnson baby here,

shortly after his election.

[x-g.o.p.er]

86. LBJ, also

[CrownPrinceBandar]

103. L.B. Johnson...........

[jimshoes]

20. Truman

but only for a few months.

[freetobegay]

21. Johnson

eom

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. oddly enough, I squeezed in during William Harrison

:P

[DemoTex]

30. That makes you the oldest DUer, by far.

Are you a mummy, Rabrrrrrr?

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Nah, just good genes

:P

[jimshoes]

52. WOW

You are about 163 years old. Cool!

[mopaul]

you're pulling up the front Rabrrrrrr

[Norbert]

23. Ike

[Branjor]

24. Truman.....

But Eisenhower was already elected.

[nonconformist]

25. Nixon nt

[NMDemDist2]

26. Eisenhower

but I had to look to make sure.

I remember being in 3rd grade when a "hall monitor" came in and whispered in the teacher's ear. My teacher put her head down and started crying then told us JFK had been assassinated.

I saw Bobby Kennedy the day (or the day before) he was shot as his motorcade when to the Sacramento Airport.

I remember Nixon pulling off his re-election while people (including me) marched in the streets against the war.

I remember Reagan as Governor of California gutting the education system and the mental health system, then going on and doing it to the whole nation.

I remember walking out of a restaurant at lunch time and seeing a anti war protest coming down the road against Gulf One and getting arrested that day for joining. I remember my "pals" at the bar refusing to speak to me for months because of it.

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Jimmy Carter.

17 January 1980

[patriotvoice]

34. "

EOM

[bigwillq]

29. Carter (nt)

[dolo amber]

31. LBJ

n/t

[GOPisEvil]

32. Lyndon B. Johnson

June of 1968

[SheilaT]

33. Truman.

In his first term. Do I get the prize?

[Hepburn]

You got me beat. I was born during his second term.

So.....what is the prize???

[mopaul]

59. no need for you to ask, your not in the running

we got a hoover and a harrison here......they stomped you.

but, i'll tell what you would've won! a ne-e-e-e-e-e-ew car!
from the truman era

[Deb]

35. Eisenhower

Biggest difference, all past Presidents were elected.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

36. Nixon.

[leftistagitator]

37. Raygun

eww...
To think if I had just been born a year earlier it would have been under Carter

[Jokerman]

39. JFK

Mom was a major fan, that's why I'm named John.

[Hepburn]

41. Truman for me, too!

n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

42. LBJ eom

[SmileyBoy]

43. Reagan (1982)

[polmaven]

44. Ditto

HST was president.

[terrya]

45. Eisenhower.

I don't remember much about him. I remember Kennedy more. Needless to say, both were about 1,000,000 times better than Fuckface.

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. Another..

Harry S Truman. Note, he never used a period after his middle initial, because the "S" didn't stand for anything.

[latebloomer]

50. Truman too-- 1952

"The Buck Stops Here"-- a phrase GWB should adopt.

[greatauntoftriplets]

66. 1949 here.

But only a few months of that one.

[SarahB]

48. Nixon

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. Jinx! You owe me a coke!!!

:hi:

[SarahB]

71. We rock!

Early 70's baby girls. :headbang:

[ScreamingMeemie]

74. You bet! Just hitting our prime we are!!

:7

[SarahB]

77. Darn strait!

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. Nixon.

:hi:

[rebellious woman]

53. Not enough time for my rememberances ....Being in the autumn of

my years, I think JFK had it all and if he had lived
there would be a different America. Had brother
Bobby lived it would have been even better. Sadly
the Gods weren't with us and since then it has been
all downhill....FDR was a wonderful President and
gave this country so much, however; Eleanor was
my mentor.....and I'm old....enough said. :)

[mopaul]

56. alright, we got a hoover and a harrison! which one's the farthest back?

[rebellious woman]

60. Harrison is older......Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy etc .etc.

Harrison was 9th President of United States Yep thats
a winner.....:)

[Angelus]

54. Reagan.

:cry:

[Upfront]

57. FDR

They had ideals and stood for them at all cost. Men of vision and courage.

[Donkeyboy75]

58. Am I the first Ford?

[IronLionZion]

61. St. Ronald of Raygun

Damn, there are a lot of people my age here tonight! Sometimes I feel like the young guy who hasn't had the chance to vote much! Although, I could have voted in 2002, somehow I missed the chance to get an absentee ballot. :silly:

[frebrd]

62. FDR (1936) eom

[mopaul]

63. woah! your in the top three

he was always my fave

[LTR]

64. LBJ

'68 for me.

[MisterP]

65. Reagan

can only remember Clinton, and his negatives were primarily mud slung onto him by the Scaife mob, and people figuring there must be SOMETHING wrong if everyone kept complaining about him...

[HawkerHurricane]

67. Kennedy.

1963.
You want to talk about a bummer? My parents tell me that the first day I walked was the day he was shot.

Dad (HawkerTyphoon) gets FDR, in 1941.

[oldleftguy]

68. God Bless Harry Truman!

:bounce:

[DAGDA56]

69. Eisenhower...but like a couple of other posts...

...Ike I don't remember (the '56 is there for a reason)...but Kennedy, I remember (we even have him in some of our home movies)

[jimshoes]

80. That is interesting...

I too had some old 8mm movies with JFK campaigning in Ohio in the summer of 1960 which I donated to the 6th Floor Museum in Dallas. I'm sure they would be interested in your home movies.

[solinvictus]

70. Nixon

Who isn't as bad in restrospect, is he?

[Fenris]

72. Reagan 84

[fujiyama]

73. About one month

after Reagan was innaugerated.

[dweller]

75. Grant

oops, sorry, i was past life regressing...

Ike this time around. And i remember Presidents that had class, integrity and honor. Up until 2000 anyway, since that point regression seemed so much sweeter.
dp

[Melsky]

76. Tricky Dick

I never thought we would have a president that would make Nixon look honest and Quayle seem well spoken.

[i_no_knothing]

78. who was pres

1954......Eisenhower? I think.....I do remember the election between Kennedy and Nixon when I was in kindergarten.

[i_no_knothing]

81. he warned us

about the "Military Industrial Complex"....we could sure use a guy like "Ike" now.

[Dark]

79. Reagan.

Don't remember much though.

[NoPasaran]

82. Ike

March 1956

[Viking12]

83. LBJ

[markbark]

84. Kennedy...

and just as an aside, I used to ask this question of charming young ladies as a somewhat obtuse way of saying "How old are you?" ;)


--MAB

[Aristus]

85. Johnson. Proud and happy to be born during the admin. of a Democrat.

Even if it was Johnson. Johnson and Nixon were two sides of the same coin; two remarkable, gifted men brought low by their insecurities and paranoia. Two men who engaged in tawdry, excessive abuses of power in order to secure their hold on that very power. And lost it for that reason.

[Hemprus]

87. Kennedy

[Deja Q]

88. Nixon, so sock it to me!

(Well, not quite 1968... try 1972. :-) )

[MrSlayer]

89. Taft

I'm well preserved.

[camero]

90. LBJ

[FDRrocks]

91. Goddamned Ronald Reagan... n/t

[MTG250]

92. Reagan

[BurtWorm]

93. McKinley

I mean Eisenhower. Late Eisenhower. The first pres I remember is Kennedy.

[corporatewhore]

94. Ray-Gun

[HEyHEY]

95. 1979 - Ronnie?

Forgive me I'm Canadian

[MrSlayer]

96. That would be Carter.

Ronnie didn't get in until 1980.

[SW FL Dem]

97. Eisenhower but the first Pres I remember is Kennedy

born in 58, my earliest memory is of the day Kennedy was assasinated. I was 5 but I can still see the room I was in when my mom got the call. There is no comparison. Shrub is by far the worst President in my lifetime.

[LWolf]

98. Eisenhower

Kennedy was elected 7 months later.

[DEM FAN]

99. Richard M. Nixon: Now I Know Why I Hate Republicans.

:-(

[CO Liberal]

100. Truman - But Eisenhower Had Just Been Elected

I was born Nov 28, 1952, a few weeks after the election.

[Parrcrow]

101. Kennedy

John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister of Canada.

[beyurslf]

102. Ford

But Ray-gun is the first I remember.

[CalebHayes]

104. Bush!

And I mean it.

[Cush]

106. freaky

hmm, wonder if you're the youngest here?

[CalebHayes]

108. I may be, at least the youngest with 1000

[Cush]

105. Carter (1977)

[RebelOne]

109. FDR -- second term.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

110. Carter 1980