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Who was president when you were born? (Original Post) trof Oct 2016 OP
FDR, for only about 2 months. elleng Oct 2016 #1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt planetc Oct 2016 #2
Hmmm, trick question... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #3
The buck stops here, Harry S Truman TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #4
I was born in '43, so FDR. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2016 #5
I remember Harry's morning walks around D.C. trof Oct 2016 #7
Born in '39, so FDR also. RebelOne Nov 2016 #20
'43 here too. old guy Aug 2017 #45
Eisenhower. Liberal Jesus Freak Oct 2016 #6
I was in USAF pilot training when Kennedy was killed. trof Oct 2016 #8
My dad was also in the AF. Liberal Jesus Freak Oct 2016 #9
Me too! TexasBushwhacker Nov 2016 #23
Truman Yonnie3 Oct 2016 #10
Still ride dual sport BlueTexasMan Oct 2016 #11
Hmmmm. No Hoover kids here. Understandable, but it could be possible. nt No Vested Interest Aug 2017 #59
FDR - I was a Depression baby - very precious because No Vested Interest Oct 2016 #12
Truman heather blossom Oct 2016 #13
Truman GeorgeGist Oct 2016 #14
Harry Truman Thinkingabout Oct 2016 #15
Harry Truman. sinkingfeeling Oct 2016 #16
JFK worstexever Oct 2016 #18
FDR northoftheborder Nov 2016 #19
FDR-5/42 dmosh42 Nov 2016 #21
Eisenhower. duffyduff Nov 2016 #22
Truman LoisB Nov 2016 #23
Truman recovering_democrat Aug 2017 #24
Lyndon B. Johnson SummerSnow Aug 2017 #25
FDR. elleng Aug 2017 #26
Truman Zoonart Aug 2017 #27
Eisenhower MFM008 Aug 2017 #28
Lbj TEB Aug 2017 #29
Lyndon b. Johnson. nt. drray23 Aug 2017 #30
Me too. applegrove Aug 2017 #57
FDR He died on my 3rd birthday. JohnnyLib2 Aug 2017 #31
Truman. OregonBlue Aug 2017 #32
Harry S Truman Glorfindel Aug 2017 #33
Harry Truman The Blue Flower Aug 2017 #34
Dwight D. Eisenhower skylucy Aug 2017 #35
Truman. dhol82 Aug 2017 #36
Truman 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2017 #37
Harry S. -- I was born a week after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. n/t Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #38
FDR donco Aug 2017 #39
Johnson Quanta Aug 2017 #40
FDR northoftheborder Aug 2017 #41
Truman, after FDR died, before he was elected president in his own right. Shrike47 Aug 2017 #42
Dwight d. Eisenhower. kimbutgar Aug 2017 #43
Harry S Truman k8conant Aug 2017 #44
I as born in April 1951, so... 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #46
Lyndon B Johnson Doreen Aug 2017 #47
Ike. flor-de-jasmim Aug 2017 #48
Harry Truman - 1949 NBachers Aug 2017 #49
Truman. (1951) dchill Aug 2017 #50
Truman Dyedinthewoolliberal Aug 2017 #51
Truman Lint Head Aug 2017 #52
Truman. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #53
Dwight D. Eisenhower SHRED Aug 2017 #54
Mister Kotter Lokilooney Aug 2017 #55
FDR BlueMTexpat Aug 2017 #56
LBJ rpannier Aug 2017 #58
Lyndon B Johnson. I was born a few days over 2 months The_REAL_Ecumenist Aug 2017 #60
Ike but I don't remember it. Laffy Kat Aug 2017 #61
This message was self-deleted by its author bench scientist Aug 2017 #62
Harry Truman, a few months before his reelection. longship Aug 2017 #63
Truman lamp_shade Aug 2017 #64
Eisengard. Kablooie Aug 2017 #65
Truman livetohike Aug 2017 #66
I was born in December of '60... ADX Aug 2017 #67
I was born in 47 and so Truman WhiteTara Aug 2017 #68
FDR. Hangingon Nov 2017 #69

elleng

(136,833 posts)
1. FDR, for only about 2 months.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:01 PM
Oct 2016

Dad served at Pearl Harbor after, as a legal officer in the Navy.

planetc

(8,324 posts)
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:01 PM
Oct 2016

I was about 2-1/2 when he died. Not sure if I remember Mr. Truman, but I remember Eisenhower.

Wounded Bear

(60,840 posts)
3. Hmmm, trick question...
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:08 PM
Oct 2016

Harry Truman, I guess. But supposedly there is a picture of me as an infant with an "I like Ike" button on my swaddling clothes. That would have been the election of '52.

trof

(54,273 posts)
7. I remember Harry's morning walks around D.C.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:27 PM
Oct 2016

He liked to take a walk after breakfast.
Drove the secret service nuts, but it was a calmer time back then.
There was always a gaggle of news folks.

Liberal Jesus Freak

(1,458 posts)
6. Eisenhower.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:27 PM
Oct 2016

LBJ is the first president I remember, although I was well aware of Kennedy's assassination.

trof

(54,273 posts)
8. I was in USAF pilot training when Kennedy was killed.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:35 PM
Oct 2016

The base went on full alert and complete lockdown.
We thought it was either Cuba or the Russians.

Liberal Jesus Freak

(1,458 posts)
9. My dad was also in the AF.
Mon Oct 31, 2016, 06:37 PM
Oct 2016

We were stationed in Duluth Minnesota when Kennedy was killed. Yes...it was a scary time.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,733 posts)
23. Me too!
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 01:00 AM
Nov 2016

1957. And I definitely remember JFK. My mother took me downtown to see his motorcade in Houston the day before he was killed.

northoftheborder

(7,611 posts)
19. FDR
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 11:43 AM
Nov 2016

I remember Pearl Harbor news on the radio, but didn't really know what it was all about. Kept hearing the unfamiliar word "Japs" on the news in excited voices.

I was home sick when FDR's death was announced during the "soaps" in the afternoon.

Glorfindel

(9,958 posts)
33. Harry S Truman
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 08:33 PM
Aug 2017

He became president in April, I was born in August 1945, JUST after the war was over.

dhol82

(9,458 posts)
36. Truman.
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 08:40 PM
Aug 2017

And we emigrated here while he was still president.
What I remember is my parents supporting Eisenhower even though they could not vote.
I still consider myself an Eisenhower Republican. Not that that has any bearing whatsoever on today's idiot cons.

Quanta

(205 posts)
40. Johnson
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 08:49 PM
Aug 2017

But the first one I *remember* personally was Ford, then Carter made a big impression. 50 years old here.

kimbutgar

(23,607 posts)
43. Dwight d. Eisenhower.
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 09:19 PM
Aug 2017

My Dad didn't talk to his father for three weeks because he voted for a Eisenhower. My Dad hated rethugs with a passion, that he passed it on to me.

BlueMTexpat

(15,502 posts)
56. FDR
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:20 AM
Aug 2017

Born in 1943.

HST actually came to my tiny home town in MT by train in the early 50s and we still have home movies of that occasion.

I actually "liked" Ike although my parents were staunch Stevenson supporters. I remember seeing JFK in person two months before he was assassinated. I was not able to vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 or for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 because I left the US in 1964 before I was 21 (that was the voting age then) and thus had no official voting residence in the US before my return in 1970. Of course, Humphrey didn't get elected and that was the beginning of the end for Dem party policies. I hated Nixon (I voted McGovern in 1972) and tolerated Gerald Ford, whom I also saw in person. I supported Jimmy Carter in both 1976 and 1980. Alas, we got Reagan and the full beginning of the onslaught on FDR's policies. Bush I and the first Gulf War helped set up the ME for Dim Son's invasion in 2003 and caused no end of havoc once our "ally" Kuwait did a mass expulsion of Palestinians - many who had been born in Kuwait and thought of themselves more as Kuwaitis - after Saddam's defeat.

I supported Walter Mondale in 1984 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. I supported Bill Clinton both times and finally was a winner again. I supported Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama (another two-time winner) and Hillary Clinton.

I may have lost more than I won in Presidential and other elections. But I have always voted and have been VERY proud of those I voted for, even when they did not have the same stands on every issue that I have had.

Laffy Kat

(16,530 posts)
61. Ike but I don't remember it.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:46 AM
Aug 2017

I remember Kennedy and on up.

Hey does anyone remember when the three television networks would communicate with each other through melodic beeps you could hear over the air? Not sure what it was, but I remember hearing that one night and my parents looked at each other and said, "Eisenhower?" because at the time he had had a stroke or something. A few minutes after those beeping sounds, there was usually a bulletin. Am I crazy?

Response to trof (Original post)

longship

(40,416 posts)
63. Harry Truman, a few months before his reelection.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 01:56 AM
Aug 2017

My father was an Eisenhower Republican; my mother was an FDR Democrat. They never fought about anything, let alone politics. It was a nice environment to grow up in.

 

ADX

(1,622 posts)
67. I was born in December of '60...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 07:34 AM
Aug 2017

...so Eisenhower was still POTUS but Kennedy was sworn-in less than a month later.

WhiteTara

(30,223 posts)
68. I was born in 47 and so Truman
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 08:05 AM
Aug 2017

was president.

It's very interesting how certain infant memories stay with you, isn't it? I remember meeting my father's parents at the age of 5 months.

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