Poll coming - do you know who was President or your country’s equivalent elected Head of Government on the date of your birth? Note that I don’t mean monarch, since that would be way too easy for most Brits.
Yes. LBJ.
No. I know Clinton was president from 1992 to 2000 and GHWB was president before him, but he would have officially taken office in January of 1989, no? So I need whoever was president before him and I don’t know who that is.
edit: Ronald Reagan apparently.
Yes, but mine’s pretty easy - Nixon.
JFK was assassinated a little over a month after I was born. I’ve known my whole life … well, my whole life from when I was old enough to understand the “where were you when Kennedy was shot” discussion.
Yes. Taft
You were alive 1909-1913? :dubious:
I knew Nixon was US President in 1970.
To my shame, though, I had no idea who was President or Taoiseach in Ireland in 1970, so I voted no. In fact, when I looked it up I was astonished to see that Eamon DeValerawas STILL president: he would have been 88 that year, and held office till 90!
However, unlike the US, the Irish presidency is more of a sinecure than an executive role, and carries no real power.
JFK
Yet another JFK. I was walking by the time he was assassinated.
Yes. Reagan.
What he said.
1993 - 2001 actually.
LBJ here, too.
Eisenhower.
Yeah, technically but do most people characterize the terms like that, do you think?
Nixon was president when I was born.
Yes, most people do. The President takes office the calendar year after the election, and it’s always been that way.
Anyway, I was born under the short-lived administration of Leslie Lynch King Jr.
I’m with you, I think people usually count from election to election.
Does anyone seriously claim that Clinton was president in 1992? 'Cause when you give a range like that (1992 - 2000) that’s exactly what you’re saying.