Ooh ooh we’re presidential twinkies!
Well, from my own confusion and others in this thread, the key to needing to think about it seems to be being born just a few weeks after/before one president leaves office and another takes it.
Eisenhower for me.
Now, my still living grandmother, Roosevelt, as in Teddy. Grandma was born in 1904
Nixon. Didn’t have to think more than three seconds.
I do remember, a few years ago, being surprised that Nixon was president when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. It just doesn’t seem fair, somehow.
Yep – Jimmy Carter.
I know the US President (FDR) and the British Prime Minister (Churchill) and the USSR head of state (Stalin). Japan was Hirohito, Germany was Hitler, Italy was Mussolini, but I can’t tell you the answers for France of the top of my head.
JFK.
Aaannd The Beverly Hillbillies had just debuted that week.
And My Favorite Geisha with Jack Lemmon was playing at the Will Rogers Theater in Chicago.
The Cuban Missle Crisis was about to become BIG NEWS.
And in England, Matthew Waterhouse who played Adric on Doctor Who was born. The show itself would not debut until JFK was assassinated later.
I suspect less than one out of a hundred Americans know who the present Speaker is.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I only just realized, when I was born, Reagan hadn’t been elected yet. He’s the President Of My Childhood ©, so I’d never considered that before…
FDR but he was on his last legs when i was on my first.
Nixon
Another Nixon baby. Had my parents been following doctors’ orders, however, I would’ve been a Ford baby, at the earliest. And I wouldn’t have been me, but that’s kinda metaphysical.
Truman.
And I remember watching Eisenhower’s first inauguration on our B&W Zenith with a 12" round screen. (And Elizabeth II’s coronation in the same year.)
You are one day older than me!