Who is the first President that you can remember well?

[mvd]

Unfortunately, it's Reagan. But it took until my teens to get to know politics and grasp how bad he was.

[AlCzervik]

1. Nixon. My first political memory was watching him resign.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear mvd.........

I remember Eisenhower pretty well.....

I was just a kid then...

He seemed like a gray eminence to my young eyes....

Solid, steady, reliable...

:hi:

[mvd]

4. Hi, Peggy!

Yes, I mean the first that you can clearly remember. Eisenhower would probably at least be an independent now. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I suspect he would be too......

Or maybe even a Dem!

I am quite sure he would be appalled at the goings-on in the Repub party these days.......

:hi:

[mvd]

12. Eisenhower certainly knew about war

And I am sure he would be against the Iraq war.

Night, Peggy! :hi:

[Breeze54]

3. Remember well?

That's relative but I do remember JFK on tv, when I was in grade school and I clearly remember Nixon.

On edit:

I totally spaced out LBJ! :rofl: Selective memory?

[Kutjara]

27. I'm the same.

I was born in early '62, and I clearly remember things like RJK and MLK's assassinations, but I draw a blank on LBJ. Nixon is the first president I remember, because he always seemed to be on TV, explaining away some fuckup or other.

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Clinton.

:hi:

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. Bush the elder

Hearing he threw up on a foreign dignitary was hilarious to my 8 year old self

[NNadir]

8. I recall bits about Eisenhower, more about Kennedy.

I came into my own when Johnson was President.

[Maddy McCall]

9. Nixon.

I was born during the LBJ administration.

I remember Nixon, Ford, and Carter well from my childhood.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. LBJ

I was born in 1961, so I don't remember JFK. But I do remember Johnson.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Bush I.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Kennedy

[AshevilleGuy]

14. Ike

It was hard to imagine anyone else being President, so JFK was quite a shock.

But Ike looked so OLD...

[philosophie_en_rose]

15. Bush I

I remember living during Reagan's term, but don't think I knew much about him. (as I was around six when Bush I was elected). However, I distinctly recall having a mini-debate about Dukakis and Bush in kindergarten.

[Broken_Hero]

16. Reagen here too...nt

[QMPMom]

17. Kennedy,

[RFKHumphreyObama]

18. Bush Sr

I was in school in SE Asia at the time and the nation in which we were situated in provided live CNN coverage during the Gulf War and in its immediate aftermath. The CNN coverage included programs such as "Crossfire" and I was glued to the coverage so I became very familiar with US names and issues at the time. So that's how I became familiar with Bush Sr. I must concede that I greatly admired and respected him at the time and looked up to him as a sort of grandfatherly figure. Because I liked Bush Sr. so much, I also developed a slight bias in favor of the Republicans (although I liked Ted Kennedy). Clinton would change all that But in answer to your question, it would have to be Bush Sr

[leftofthedial]

19. JFK

[Nicole]

20. LBJ n/t

[LSK]

21. Raygun

:scared:

[wildhorses]

22. jfk

[ellisonz]

23. GWB - My generation is screwed.

I don't remember much before 1998, I'm almost 21.

[njdemocrat106]

24. Raygun

I remember being a kid, wanting to watch some cartoons, and they were preempted for some Raygun address. I was none too pleased.

[Guava Jelly]

25. Jimmy Carter

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[alphafemale]

26. Nixon. After a few years I learned his first name wasn't actually -

Datsunufabitch. :D

He was not a popular person in our household.

[murielm99]

28. Eisenhower.

My kids' first recollections are of Reagan.

We called him "The Stupid Man," because I thought my kids were too little to understand that they should not repeat swear words. I don't know when they realized what his real name was.

[Jimbo S]

29. Carter