Who was President of the USA when you were born? (Nixon has been added to the poll)

[WI_DEM]

The columns only allow me to go back to FDR. If you were born before FDR please indicate feel free to specify with a response.

Note: I also left out Tricky Dick, so please if you are a "Dick" baby leave a response. Sorry about that.

New Note: No Clinton votes have been cast, so I put Nixon where Clinton was--so all you Tricky Dick babies can now vote for the man. Funny, finally voting for Nixon! Anyway, Clinton babies please post below. Thank you!!

[cosmik debris]

1. You left out Nixon. n/t

[WI_DEM]

2. Oh my GAWD, How could I!

[libnnc]

3. Nixon

'70

Not in your poll.

[bouwob1]

4. and just to spice things up

who was the worst president in your life time

[Clark2008]

15. The current one.

:puke:

[FatDave]

43. Oh come on!

Like it's even a contest!

[yy4me]

46. GWB, Worst ever. And I've been around since FDR.

The current White House occupant probably can't even spell president.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Nixon!

[Clark2008]

6. Another Tricky Dick baby here - 1970.

[madokie]

72. nineteen hundred and forty eight model here

[closeupready]

7. Oh, yeah, I just noticed that

he was missign from the list.

[Individualist]

8. 64 years ago today - FDR

[Clark2008]

13. Happy Birthday!!!

:party: :bounce: :toast: :applause: :applause: :toast: :bounce: :party:

[Purveyor]

19. Happy Birthday!!!

:applause:

[WI_DEM]

24. Happy, Happy!!

[Individualist]

32. Thanks to all for the birthday greetings

Chronological age is 64, but psychological age varies from 8 to 16 to 30 and sometimes even actual age. The eight year old has been having fun today. :)

[TahitiNut]

30. A mere two months older than I ... just a child. Happy Birthday!

:party: (The best people were born in 1943.)

[Individualist]

35. Absolutely!

Thank you. :hug:

[tcfrogs]

9. Apparently I can't vote - Nixon

How could you possibly forget Nixon?

Just kidding! :hi:

[HamdenRice]

10. Eisenhower

I feel so old!

The first I remember was Kennedy, especially him getting shot. Johnson was a big part of my childhood, not because of the war, but because of the civil rights legislation.

[Island Blue]

11. JFK - but just barely

He was assassinated 3 months after I was born. :-(

[ourbluenation]

52. 3 weeks after I was born.

:(

[etherealtruth]

69. 10 months after I was

[slackmaster]

12. Ike, and I remember every one since then quite well

At least starting with the JFK assassination.

:argh:

[marmar]

14. '72....would that still have been Tricky Dick?

:shrug:

[tcfrogs]

18. Yes n/t

[HamdenRice]

16. Note the very nice bell shaped curve !

Looks like Ike is the mode, and Truman and Kennedy are one standard deviation away!

(For statistics freaks, just kidding about the standard deviation.)

[cosmik debris]

25. To me it looks like

Ike is flippin' us off.

[Bicoastal]

17. A suggestion

There are undoubtedly going to be waaaay more votes for Nixon than Clinton--I doubt there are more than a handful of DU'ers 15 and younger. Why not just change the Clinton bar to read "Nixon"?

[WI_DEM]

20. Good suggestion.

[bouwob1]

21. /agree nt

[Elwood P Dowd]

22. Harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman

And when he left office in 1953, he and his wife got into the family car and drove back to Missouri.

[Retrograde]

31. Same here, but only for a year

Actually, only 363 days. The first one I remember is Eisenhower. I clearly remember the controversy in 1960 about Kennedy's Catholicism.

[LSK]

23. Nixon - not on the list?????

[WI_DEM]

26. He's been added.

[dchill]

27. I don't remember.

;)

[jkshaw]

28. Right, you didn't go BACK far enough!

But most of these things don't , so I'm used to it. Hoover was about to be kicked out by FDR when I was born -- 1930. FDR was a hero to my small family, and to most of Gloucester City, New Jersey. He died in office when I was about to turn fifteen.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

55. Hoover, eh?

I got that beat.

[wryter2000]

29. I forgot when I was born

Label me a freeper. I was born under Truman, but the first President I remember was Ike, so I clicked on Ike.

[WI_DEM]

33. Lot's of Ike babies here

[pnorman]

34. What, no Herbert Hoover?

n/t

pnorman

[Elwood P Dowd]

36. My mother was born when Woodrow Wilson was prez.

She is till alive and cursing republicans.

[dsc]

68. My Grandmother was born during Wilson as well.

[kimmerspixelated]

37. Well in '56, I guess it was Ike, right?

[Elwood P Dowd]

39. Sorry. Thought you said you were 56. (nm)

(nm)

[kimmerspixelated]

51. No prob, Elwood!

It was "Harvey" that made the mistake!:hi:

[Elwood P Dowd]

54. Me and Harvey have been drinking too much.

:beer:

[warren pease]

38. Grover Cleveland

Actually it was Truman. Only my knees are 120 years old


wp

[aikoaiko]

40. I didn't realize DU was so gray?

[Individualist]

44. I ain't gray! Thanks to Revlon, I'm blonde.

[JuniperLea]

60. In that case...

You'll remember the old hair coloring commercials... "only her hairdresser knows for sure"... back when we were all told we couldn't be happy unless we were blond.

[WI_DEM]

45. Oh gray, at first I thought you wrote gay.

[Beaverhausen]

56. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[JuniperLea]

57. 'Scuze me! That's Platinum Blond!

harrumph!


:silly:

[madokie]

71. well at least I still have all my 'hare'

[MedleyMisty]

41. I voted for Reagan

Although technically it was Carter. December 1980.

[phaseolus]

42. My god, we're a bunch of geezers...

Ike here. When I was born Kennedy's inauguration was about two months away...

[kimmerspixelated]

53. Yes, perhaps a lot of us are really just old hippies,( or something)

but with age comes a lot of grace!

[ElizabethDC]

47. Reagan

fortunately, though, I no memory of his presidency.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

48. Doddering old Anarchist - FDR was prez when I was hatched singing the "Internationale".

My father was a socialist who loathed FDR because by undercutting the socialists he delayed the revolution.

[pnorman]

66. Hoover for me!

I was born in an anarchist 'commune' in NJ (in 1930). My father, a lifelong Wobbly (IWW) had little use for FDR either, but perhaps for somewhat different reasons. I recall NO "political indoctrination" per se, but a lifelong feeling for Truth, Justice, and Liberty was somehow conveyed to me.

pnorman

[pnorman]

70. Hey, "Doddering old Anarchist":

In the end, among all the leftists, the Anarchists had the clearest vision. Here's what one, David Edelstadt, wrote so prophetically in the late 19th century:

Already I can see our golden future
when the state will be crowned;
Socialist policemen will crowd every corner
From the president on his throne
To the sheriff tightening his rope
-All will be socialists
What do you say to such a happy prospect?


pnorman
David Edelstadt : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovid_Edelstadt

[FatDave]

49. Nixon, 1970

But I have very few memories of the Nixon administration. I remember only that due to Vietnam and the draft, I was under the impression that for some reason, at the age of 18, all males were taken off somewhere to be killed. As in euthanized, no fighting chance. Like a Logan's Run scenario or something.

My other memory is that I was downright pissed that The Six Million Dollar Man was preempted by the Watergate hearings. Even at the tender age of 4, I had reason to be mad at Nixon.

[justjones]

50. Nixon was prez when I was born, but Carter was the first president...

I was ever cognizant of. I don't remember Tricky Dick and I never would have known Ford was in office when I was a kid if I didn't look up presidential dates on Wikipedia.

[Solly Mack]

58. I was born shortly after JFK was assassinated - so, LBJ

[trumad]

59. Madison

[Anwen]

61. Reagan, 1980.

kick!

[slackmaster]

62. Nice bimodel distribution forming

If you can visualize Nixon in the proper place in time.

[hootinholler]

63. Ike had 24 days left in office when I was born. n/t

[juno jones]

64. I was born three weeks after the 11/22/63 regime change....

I would really like to live in america as promised....

[Cooley Hurd]

65. LBJ, also the movie "Help!" was released the year I was born...

Kids, what year was it?
a) 1926
b) 1965
c) 2001

I'll be back with the answer, as well as this week's Top 40, right after this commercial...

[bigwillq]

67. Carter

[RestoreGore]

73. Too bad RFK is not an option...

President Nixon would never have been president had he lived. I was born when President Eisenhower still had two years to go, but I surely believe that RFK would have been our greatest president and wish he were an option. Unfortunately it appears our system does not allow for truly good and uncorruptable men to ascend to that office.