# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/61 "2011-04-25T19:08:35Z")
Born about three months before National Convention season in Ike’s first term. I remember Kennedy, and went to stand around in a crowd at Edwards AFB\* once in (probably) 1962, hoping to catch a glimpse of him. If there had been some sort of raised vantage point, say a knoll of some kind, for me to stand on, I might have managed it. And if it had been covered with grass, I could have lain down and taken a nap, because that day was BORING. \*Yes, I was there with my family. I was SIX, ffs. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/62 "2011-04-25T21:20:31Z")
Bah, I mis-clicked. I voted Carter, but it was Ford. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/63 "2011-04-25T21:26:14Z")
Born under Ford. First memory of a president is Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/64 "2011-04-25T22:23:06Z")
Give’ em Hell Harry for me, for my 16 months or so. The first president I remember is Eisenhower. The first election I was aware of was Nixon/Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/65 "2011-04-26T00:29:18Z")
Ford here. It makes me feel sadly ancient that two people actually picked Clinton as the president they were born under. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/66 "2011-04-26T01:08:26Z")
1. Truman. I dimly remember Eisenhower on the TeeVee. . ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/67 "2011-04-26T01:13:31Z")
JFK, he was inaugurated a few weeks before I was born. Whether real or imagined, I have vague recollections of his assassination at 2 yrs 8 months. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/68 "2011-04-26T01:42:14Z")
I was born during the Nixon Administration. I remember the Watergate hearings coming on tv right after Captain Kangaroo. I was politically aware early, and have memories of telling my grade two classmate that Jimmy Carter was the new President of the United States, but we still had Trudeau as Prime Minister. I got a lot of blank looks from my seven year old cohorts. ---
**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 26, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/69 "2011-04-26T10:33:07Z")
> [@kenner116](#): > > I was born on the day of Reagan’s reelection. My mom wasn’t able to vote for Carter that day. [nitpick] Mondale, not Carter. Although I can see why one might forget him. And I’m pretty sure your mom’s vote wouldn’t have tipped the balance. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/70 "2011-04-26T11:17:27Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > LBJ > > ETA wow, I’m already on my 9th President. Ditto. I vaguely remember Nixon, but Carter was completely on my radar. I voted for him in my fourth grade mock election. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/71 "2011-04-26T12:14:10Z")
Sneaky age poll! I don’t care what anyone says, William Howard Taft was a fine horseman. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/72 "2011-04-26T15:03:38Z")
Tricky Dick FTW. Carter is the first president I remember. The 1980 election was the first I remember paying any attention to because we had a mock election vote at my school. I also remember the “Voo-doo economics” line from the primary. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/73 "2011-04-26T21:48:02Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > I guess I’m the only one so far to pick Hoover. Do I get a prize? You and my folks can sit around chewing BlackJack gum and discussing whether or not to join the war in Europe! JFK for me, but only by a couple of months. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/74 "2011-04-26T22:19:50Z")
Ford, by about 5 months (August 1976). ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/75 "2011-04-26T23:00:13Z")
FDR BTW, OPr, Carter’s legal and official first name is Jimmy ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/76 "2011-04-26T23:14:39Z")
FDR ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/77 "2011-04-26T23:25:48Z")
Bush, with vague recollections of Clinton, though I didn’t pay much attention to him partly due to being under 10 and partly due to being Australian. The first I really remember is Bush 2. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/78 "2011-04-27T00:31:26Z")
Carter. I was born in '79, six days before the Shah fled Iran and three days after the collapse of Pol Pot’s regime. I knew of Reagan a bit, towards the end of his second term. Trudeau was the Canadian PM, although Clark defeated him in the May '79 election. I was born in January. ---
**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 27, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/79 "2011-04-27T00:58:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Get off my lawn! 🙂 > > Hey, do you remember him being impeached or is that too early for you? > > I mean, man, his impeachment is like recent history to me and it’s weird to think about people not remembering it. As for me, my first memory is some brief sign on TV news about “Election 2000” but my first real memories are watching 9-11 on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594/80 "2011-04-27T02:54:48Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister when I was born. Heh. That doesn’t really narrow it down much, does it? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-president-of-the-us-when-you-were-born/579594.md?page=5)