# Who Was President of the US When You Were Born **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594 "2011-04-24T22:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/1 "2011-04-24T22:47:52Z")
Who was the President of the USA when you came into existence? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/2 "2011-04-24T22:52:14Z")
LBJ ETA wow, I’m already on my 9th President. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/3 "2011-04-24T23:41:33Z")
Carter. Reagan’s the first president I remember. Startin’ to feel old, **Dio**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/4 "2011-04-24T23:44:38Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Carter. Reagan’s the first president I remember. Reagans the first president I remember as well, but I was born under Ford. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/5 "2011-04-24T23:48:45Z")
JFK. Don’t remember him though, for obvious reasons. Don’t remember Johnson either. Definitely know the rest. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/6 "2011-04-24T23:52:23Z")
Truman. Can’t say that I remember anything about him firsthand, but I do have a vague recollection of Eisenhower v Stevenson in 1952 (specifically, “The Man of the Hour is Eisenhower”). ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/7 "2011-04-24T23:52:37Z")
I was born a year after Reagan was first inaugurated. I don’t really remember him, but have clear memories of the first Bush. ---
**Author:** ![\_mostly\_Harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9d8465/32.png) [@\_mostly\_Harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_mostly_Harmless)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/8 "2011-04-24T23:55:42Z")
I was born under Reagan (well not _under_-under) and he is also the first president I remember. Also the first time I had any concept of what year it was (or what a year even meant) was in 1988, still under Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/9 "2011-04-25T00:04:21Z")
I was born while Ike was in office. I don’t remember JFK, but I do remember LBJ. Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Dubya, and Obama - not sure what to make of that list. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/10 "2011-04-25T00:04:25Z")
Reagan, although there were less than three months remaining in his second term. The first president I was really aware of is Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/11 "2011-04-25T00:05:00Z")
I was only six during the Ford/Carter election, but I remember it. We had a mock election at school to parallel the actual race,and I voted against Ford because I thought his bald head was scary. 😉 I remember being absolutely terrified by the prospect of the Reagan presidency four years later, as my parents thought he was an agent of Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/12 "2011-04-25T00:17:41Z")
Reagan. I was old enough by the end of his second term to at least vaguely be aware of him as President. I think the '92 election was the first I was actually able to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/13 "2011-04-25T00:21:41Z")
Give 'em hell Harry. The first one I remember being cognizant of is Ike in his second term. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/14 "2011-04-25T00:26:35Z")
JFK…right before the end. Wow, I’m old. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/15 "2011-04-25T00:27:17Z")
Reagan, by a couple of months apparently. I think the first president that I had any contemporary awareness of was G.H.W. Bush, though. Having never thought about it before, I just looked up who was Prime Minister of Canada when I was born: Trudeau. I have no memories of him, either, but I do of Mulroney. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/16 "2011-04-25T00:27:29Z")
The first I remember is Eisenhower, but Truman was the President when I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/17 "2011-04-25T00:28:28Z")
Born during LBJ’s administration. My first presidential recollections were about some minor kerfuffle Nixon got into. Something about water? Probably not important now. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/18 "2011-04-25T00:29:22Z")
George Herbert Walker. The earliest president I actually remember was Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/19 "2011-04-25T00:29:36Z")
Carter - and I had to look it up. I could have sworn that it was Reagen. The first one I remember is Bush 1. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/20 "2011-04-25T00:36:40Z")
I was honestly surprised when I learned that I was alive during the Nixon administration. Being born in 1973, all I remember back then was my parents being some hybrid of hippies and rednecks. I would say it seems just like yesterday but I honestly don’t remember a goddammed thing about it. Carter was the first president I remember and Reagan was the first president we had that anyone I knew liked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594.md?page=2)