Do you know who was President when you were born?

[Lord_Feldon]

I know it off the top of my head (Reagan).

@Little_Nemo

Out of curiosity, are there any Americans who can tell, without looking it up, who was the Speaker of the House when they were born? I’m thinking probably less than one out of a hundred Americans know off the top of their head (I didn’t).

I also guessed Tip O’Neill, and I was also wrong.

[6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast]

@Frank

Your mom was a slacker. The rest of us had mothers who walked around for nine months holding TV sets like these to their bellies, so that their offspring sprang into the world fully formed, sort of like Athena, smaller and less well armed.

Oh, she did everything she could, Frank but I was preoccupied with the dilemmas of measuring my own head, seeing the size of the escape hatch, and growing hair. Thanks to this thread, however, I know why I was slapped.

Thanks for nuthin’ JFK.

[Johanna]

@Little_Nemo

That’s a coincidence. Eleanor Roosevelt’s middle name literally was Eleanor too.

Really, it was. Her actual first name was Anna.

Anna was my mother’s mother’s first name. Told you we were Democratic.

[Qin_Shi_Huangdi]

Bill Clinton.

[missred]

@VunderBob

Yet another JFK. I was walking by the time he was assassinated.

Same here. He was killed about six weeks before my first birthday.

[congodwarf]

I always thought it was Reagan because he’s the first I remember (though only vaguely).

I just looked it up, it was Carter for 1 year and 7 days after I was born.

[kittenblue]

Eisenhower.

[carnut]

Yep. I know. The presidency swapped hands (and parties) 5 months later.

[Invisible_Chimp]

I was born in late '78, so definitely the Carter Admin.

[LunarPlexus]

JFK for about 3.5 hours. If I had dawdled, it’s possible the answer could have been nobody?

[LunarPlexus]

@LunarPlexus

JFK for about 3.5 hours. If I had dawdled, it’s possible the answer could have been nobody?

Missed edit window: So I guess the answer is, “Yes, I know it off the top of my head,” but that seems kind of tasteless.

[colonial]

@Little_Nemo

Out of curiosity, are there any Americans who can tell, without looking it up, who was the Speaker of the House when they were born? I’m thinking probably less than one out of a hundred Americans know off the top of their head (I didn’t).

I was born 6/30/49, so Truman was President, but I am not sure which party controlled the HR then,
and if it was the Republicans I do not know who the Speaker would have been. If it was the Democrats
then the Speaker would have been Sam Rayburn. I am going to go with Rayburn on the assumption that
Truman’s 1948 upset victory coattails deliivered an HR majority for his party.

[Mr_Shine]

Yep, James Callaghan (Carter in US)

[jjimm]

I’m a Brit.

I knew LBJ off the top of my head, and I suspected Harold Wilson. Embarrassingly I had to look the British PM up to confirm.

[yojimbo]

Like jjimm I’ll have to look up the Irish Political leader to make sure but off the top of my head.

1971

US Pres = Nixon
UK PM = Heath
Irish Pres = De Valera
Irish PM = ehhh … Lynch

[GuanoLad]

I think his name was Bob.

Or Steve.

Or possibly Frank.

[Anamorphic]

@Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake

How is that easy?

Because of the controversy surrounding his presidency, and the fact that he resigned only a few years later, I would think the years of his stay in office would be more implanted in people’s minds than the average presidency. I guess I could be wrong on that.

[An_Gadai]

Ireland

1981

Irish President - Patrick Hillery (not sure if I have the spelling right!)
Irish PM (Taoiseach) - I’m gonna guess Charlie Haughey but not too sure
British PM - Maggie “the milk snatcher” Thatcher
US President - Ronnie Reagan

[Student_Driver]

Ford. Missed Nixon by seventeen days.

[RealityChuck]

Truman, though in his final months as president.