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Related: About this forumWho was president when you were born?
FDR for me.
I was born about 3 months before Pearl Harbor.
I remember hearing about his death on the radio.
elleng
(136,043 posts)Dad served at Pearl Harbor after, as a legal officer in the Navy.
planetc
(8,250 posts)I was about 2-1/2 when he died. Not sure if I remember Mr. Truman, but I remember Eisenhower.
Wounded Bear
(60,681 posts)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.
TexasProgresive
(12,285 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(152,069 posts)I don't remember any of the Presidents until Eisenhower.
trof
(54,273 posts)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.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)old guy
(3,292 posts)Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,457 posts)LBJ is the first president I remember, although I was well aware of Kennedy's assassination.
trof
(54,273 posts)The base went on full alert and complete lockdown.
We thought it was either Cuba or the Russians.
Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,457 posts)We were stationed in Duluth Minnesota when Kennedy was killed. Yes...it was a scary time.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,667 posts)1957. And I definitely remember JFK. My mother took me downtown to see his motorcade in Houston the day before he was killed.
BlueTexasMan
(179 posts)Franklin D. Roosevelt
No Vested Interest
(5,196 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,196 posts)there were fewer of us!
heather blossom
(174 posts)Both in 1952
GeorgeGist
(25,426 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,985 posts)I was 3 when he was assassinated.
northoftheborder
(7,608 posts)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.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Born right in the middle of the Baby Boom, 1955.
recovering_democrat
(283 posts)1945. born a couple of months after Roosevelt died.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)3 months later, HST.
MFM008
(20,000 posts)........
drray23
(7,962 posts)applegrove
(123,111 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,232 posts)OregonBlue
(7,923 posts)Glorfindel
(9,919 posts)He became president in April, I was born in August 1945, JUST after the war was over.
The Blue Flower
(5,636 posts)nt
skylucy
(3,853 posts)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.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,887 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)But the first one I *remember* personally was Ford, then Carter made a big impression. 50 years old here.
northoftheborder
(7,608 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)kimbutgar
(23,254 posts)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.
k8conant
(3,034 posts)I'm a 49er.
3catwoman3
(25,430 posts)..anther Give 'Em Hell Harry baby here.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,158 posts)NBachers
(18,129 posts)dchill
(40,467 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,909 posts)but my memory of Presidents starts with the last good Republican, Ike...........
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(120,813 posts)I don't remember him but I do vaguely remember Eisenhower.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)The last semi decent Republican.
Lokilooney
(322 posts)I mean Carter jeez, you people make me feel young!
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.
The year he crushed Goldwater
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(874 posts)after Kennedy was murdered
Laffy Kat
(16,522 posts)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?
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longship
(40,416 posts)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.
lamp_shade
(15,092 posts)Kablooie
(18,768 posts)Oops, sorry. I'm rereading lord of the rings.
livetohike
(22,964 posts)I was born in July 1952.
ADX
(1,622 posts)...so Eisenhower was still POTUS but Kennedy was sworn-in less than a month later.
WhiteTara
(30,155 posts)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.