# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/41 "2011-04-25T11:00:28Z")
I was born a little over a year before Nixon resigned, but the first president I really remember is Carter. I recall liking him because he had a gentle voice. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/42 "2011-04-25T11:10:46Z")
Nixon, with less than a year to go until his resignation. I remember the Carter-Reagan election campaigns, but not Ford or Carter’s Presidencies. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/43 "2011-04-25T11:16:33Z")
JFK was reigning in Camelot when I was born. I was 2 and change when he was assassinated. LBJ is the one I remember. Reagan is the first one I voted for. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/44 "2011-04-25T11:44:00Z")
All the way with LBJ. My mother made me watch Nixon get on the helicopter. I was bored by it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/45 "2011-04-25T11:55:20Z")
I only learned about Reagan When Bush Sr. started running. We got to vote in school. I thought it was so cool that, every time we did this, the kids got the same results. In fact, since I hadn’t thought about it in ages, I just realized how obvious that was. BTW, even if I count all of those, every president I’ve ever voted for has won. All three of them. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/46 "2011-04-25T12:42:54Z")
Truman, for a few months. I evidently campaigned for Stevenson with my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/47 "2011-04-25T14:56:01Z")
I don’t remember much of the Eisenhower presidency, but the Kennedy era and its end was etched deeply into my consciousness. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/48 "2011-04-25T15:03:07Z")
I was born during the JFK admin. I barely remember LBJ, but was quite aware of Nixon, Humphrey, and Wallace (whose running mate was Curtis LeMay!) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/49 "2011-04-25T15:12:06Z")
Born during LBJ’s first term. I can remember bad-mouthing Nixon during his campaign for President. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/50 "2011-04-25T15:22:54Z")
I like Ike. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/51 "2011-04-25T15:23:03Z")
I was born during the last six months of Ike’s presidency (July 1960.) Apparently my mother was settling down to watch the Democratic Convention when she went into labor. My first presidential memory was of my mother pointing to a man speaking on television and saying “That’s President Kennedy.” I must have been about three, because my next presidential memory was asking my mother why she was crying, and her telling me she was sad because President Kennedy had died. Other than that, I remember of being fairly aware of the later Johnson years. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/52 "2011-04-25T16:12:01Z")
Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister when I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/53 "2011-04-25T16:52:16Z")
LBJ. Nixon was the first president I was aware of, mainly because when I was still quite young he came to Portland, OR — I grew up across the river in Vancouver, WA — to give a speech (I’m going to guess 1972 campaign speech), and my dad took me to the Portland International Airport to see his plane land and watch him disembark. Big crowd is all I really remember, as I was only six at the time. A couple years later my Cub Scout troop actually went to some venue in Portland to see and hear Gerald Ford give a speech. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/54 "2011-04-25T17:09:31Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > 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. Ah yes…the _laid-back redneck_ otherwise known as the _long-haired country boy_ or _hybrid hippie_. Pretty much an obsolete breed now, but once a force to be reckoned with in the South and Inland West. Had the hair, but with boots, jeans, and indian jewelry instead of beads & roman sandals. Keen on the environment, but didn’t give a damn about world peace. Religious preference was Indian Shaman or renegade Baptist, not Eastern mystic. Listened to Willie Nelson instead of Ravi Shankar. I aspired to be one myself, for a time, but the genus was falling out of favor by that time and had difficulty getting laid. Eisenhower was pres when I was born, but only for a few more months. SS ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/55 "2011-04-25T17:28:35Z")
What, no choice for Obama? Seriously, this thread will be a zombie one day… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/56 "2011-04-25T17:44:39Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Do not remember LBJ. Don’t remember Johnson but boy, do I remember Nixon. He was on the TV ALL THE TIME! He even interrupted my cartoons. And now he _is_ a cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/embed/HvYm68dOQ4k?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/57 "2011-04-25T18:14:40Z")
I guess I’m the only one so far to pick Hoover. Do I get a prize? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/58 "2011-04-25T18:46:05Z")
Truman. But earliest Presidential recollections are circa 1960, both parents fairly active politically and vehemently anti-Nixon. (… At least one parent flipped a few years later voting for Nixon and even Goldwater, IIRC. :smack:) **Question:** Before voting in the poll, I could click “View” and see how old some of you Dopers are. 😃 But after voting I can’t. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/59 "2011-04-25T18:55:14Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Truman. But earliest Presidential recollections are circa 1960, both parents fairly active politically and vehemently anti-Nixon. (… At least one parent flipped a few years later voting for Nixon and even Goldwater, IIRC. :smack:) > > **Question:** Before voting in the poll, I could click “View” and see how old some of you Dopers are. 😃 But after voting I can’t. What gives? Click on any of the poll numbers. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/60 "2011-04-25T19:05:23Z")
I was born during LBJ’s time and I remember Nixon far too well. His “Watergate” thing interrupted my morning TV a lot. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594.md?page=4)