Thanks for asking CPD SIG. Good title for a thread. I was born towards the end of Nixon’s first term. So Jimmy Carter would be the first president I have any memory of.
June 23, 2025, 04:27 PM
hooch
LBJ, the first POTUS I recall is Nixon.
June 23, 2025, 04:30 PM
stoic-one
quote:
Originally posted by hooch: LBJ, the first POTUS I recall is Nixon.
Same. Born in the last year considered to be "boomers", 1964...
I was born during Carter, Regan is the first President I remember (specifically the assassination attempt).
I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself.
June 23, 2025, 04:34 PM
83v45magna
When I was born, JFK had about 5 months left on the clock.
June 23, 2025, 04:37 PM
ch23701
Ike was President when I was born, but JFK is the 1st president I actually remember. I was on the bus listening to the radio leaving elementary school when I heard he had been assassinated. Sad day especially as a kid.
June 23, 2025, 04:39 PM
farman
I was born in the Truman era, but the one I remember was "I Like Ike". I was 5
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June 23, 2025, 04:43 PM
NOCkid
I arrived during Eisenhower's first term, can vaguely remember the 1960 election. I favored Nixon because elephants were more appealing to me than donkeys.This message has been edited. Last edited by: NOCkid,
June 23, 2025, 04:44 PM
rat2306
Eisenhower.
June 23, 2025, 04:50 PM
maxwayne
I am another Truman.
June 23, 2025, 04:50 PM
Lt CHEG
I was born in 1979, so I was born during the Carter administration. As others have said, my first memories were from Reagan’s presidency.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
June 23, 2025, 04:51 PM
straightshooter1
Uhhhh, guy named Truman was the President when I arrived on the scene. Parents and grandparents really loved him. My grandparents were fit to be tied when I came home from somewhere (Kindergarten-1st grade?) with an "I like Ike" pin on my shirt.
Bob
June 23, 2025, 04:52 PM
1967Goat
Richard Nixon, shortly after the release of The Dark Side of the Moon.
June 23, 2025, 05:00 PM
6guns
October of 1958; Eisenhower.
Kennedy was the first president I was aware of.
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June 23, 2025, 05:01 PM
6guns
quote:
Originally posted by NOCkid: I arrived during Eisenhower's first term, can vaguely remember the 1960 election. I favored Kennedy because elephants were more appealing to me than donkeys.
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June 23, 2025, 05:05 PM
blueye
The way i feel i would like to say Abe Lincoln but born when Ike was running the show 1953.
June 23, 2025, 05:10 PM
DrDan
About 2 weeks before the Cuban Missile crisis, so JFK.
