I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about US history, and certainly know my own birthday, but am a bit embarrassed by not being confident about this, because I was born in what should have been Nixon’s second term, and thus it’s either Nixon or Ford. I think probably Nixon…
(checking Wikipedia)
…and I was right by about 9 months.
Holy crap, I was WRONG!
I was 100% sure that I was born during Carter’s adminstration, but when I double checked wikipedia to see how far into his term he was, I discovered that I was actually born when Ford was president!
Weird!
Boy, that was a no-brainer. His excellency Herbert Hoover still had two years to go when I entered this vale of tears.
I knew it off the top of my head … I would have chosen option two, but it didn’t take me but about 5 seconds to go … 1965: Johnson. So I can’t give the full minute it’s due and proper.
Had to think for a minute to choose between FDR and Truman, but it was definitely Truman.
Truman here.
Ye gods, but you’re younger than I thought.
Eisenhower, I think. (I’m not American).
Having checked, it appears I am wrong, it was Truman.
I always have to think for a few seconds to figure out if it was Ford or Carter. They were both in office the year I was born, hence the confusion. It is Carter, ftr - he took office a couple of months before I was born.
LBJ
OK
Yeah.
I’m going to fully admit I’m an idiot too. I went through life always thinking it was Carter. It wasn’t. It was Ford. I never even thought about those two and a half weeks of 1977 where Carter wasn’t President until now.
DDE for me too. I don’t know for sure who was House Speaker but if I had to guess, I’d go with Sam Rayburn. (Nope, it Joseph W. Martin, who I’ve never even heard of. Weirdly enough, while looking this up I found out that the image I’ve always associated with Sam Rayburn isn’t him at all, it’s John Nance Garner.)
This got me thinking about U.S. Presidential elections and I wondered whether people had any trouble remembering who they voted for. My guess is that it is probably tougher for those of use who have voted for more than a couple of presidents. I found that my brain skipped over one of my choices and remembered another incorrectly.
That’s what I was going to post … but reading the thread first I see I’m only in time to be Truman #5 and there’s already a Hoover ! (Thanks, Daylate – you make me feel like a teenager!)
Chatting with a 30-year old Brit friend during the Olympics, the conversation turned to national anthems and God Save the Queen. He suddenly startled and gasped “Hey! Didn’t we use to have a King? What did we use for an anthem then?” :smack:
LBJ
Bri2k
For bonus points, I know who was running both my countries of citizenship when I was born.
ETA: Take my points away; I missed Diefenbaker by just under a month. I now know it was St. Laurent.
Reagan, speaker was Tip O’neil.
Jimmy Carter. Didn’t have to look, didn’t have to think about it.
:eek:
:: points and yells ::
Canadian!
Rayburn was Speaker when I was born (although only for the next eighteen days). But for some reason I was thinking he had left the office earlier (I think of him being Speaker in the forties and fifties, not the sixties). And I knew Carl Albert was later (in the seventies) and I couldn’t remember who had been Speaker between those two.
Yes I know. The fucker was General Jorge Rafael Videla, de facto President of Argentina (I was born in 1979)