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The first US president I can remember was Richard Nixon. There was a variety show on British TV in which a guy called David Nixon performed some amazingly entertaining tricks.
There was this other guy called Richard Nixon, and he also did tricks. I got the two guys mixed up, but I realised that some of Richard Nixon's tricks were dirty ones, and that he was in trouble.
Clinton. Born in 1988. One of my earliest memories is playing with Legos in my room and a news report came talking about him. What’s funny is at that time they used to air Simpson reruns every week night at 6 & 6:30 which is always watch. After talking about Clinton the news reporter said something like “And another shocking turn today in the Simpson Trial, we’ll bring you the latest” and I got mad because I thought she meant they were going to skip the Simpsons to talk about some trial with Clinton
In 4th grade, we did have to do some project thing where we read up on candidates and vote for one, and I remember picking Obama over Romney. I was vaguely aware of his existence for part of his first term and the entirety of his second, but I wasn't aware of any policy or presidential actions. Just that some dude named Obama was president.
Nixon memory: I drew horns on him and my dad got upset. He disliked Nixon, but as a military officer he said we need to respect the office and its holder. But when he resigned, Tricky Dick was fair game in our house to some jokes for sure.
I remember as a very young child (as in two or three) I heard the name “President Bush” on the radio (W. Bush), I remember looking outside the kitchen window and seeing a bush in our garden. That’s the first presidential memory I have.
There was also watching Barack Obama’s inauguration. That was a good memory.
In terms of historical presidents, I really liked President Eisenhower because I had an Eisenhower dollar gifted to me at a young age.
I remember my grandma had an old button that said that and she had explained it was for president Eisenhower. Didn't understand since his name was Dwight
The first president that I remember was Bill Clinton. That's because he was the man on TV that my mom told me was the president. I was born in 1992, so Clinton's presidency lines up nicely with my early years.
Wait, is your neighbor still alive and was alive during his presidency??
Taft served only served until 1913, so she would have to be one of the oldest people alive at this point, hahaha.
Yeah, that's where I was at with it as well, haha. He was a scandalous saxophone-playing president who beat my Jackson / Mouse write-in for the mock 1996 elections. Boo!
I think that I vaguely remember Nixon. Ford definitely rings a bell, and by the time I got to Carter I had some childlike idea of what a President was and what he did.
I still remember the first time I ever learned what a President was - and it was when Reagan died (I was six). The 2004 elections were also coming up, and needless to say, I thought they were running to replace Reagan (in my defense, I had a similar discovery experience with Pope John Paul II, and there was an election to replace HIM). So yeah, W. is the first one I really remember, though I was born during Clinton’s second term.
I remember hearing of Reagan and Bush at the same time. I would have been 6 years old. I don't remember one before the other. I remember learning of both during the election year of 88.
Clinton was the president when I learned what politics really were though. Or at least started getting an idea.
I was born during the Clinton years (1994), and I have some brief memory that he *was* the President, but I knew nothing about him or what that meant.
The first election I remember was 2000, and I knew a lot of people were angry about how it turned out, but again, didn’t know why. (I also didn’t know that controversial elections were abnormal, as that was the first one I was old enough to remember.)
I remember Bill Clinton. I was in kindergarten and there was a girl in my class named Hillary and a girl named Chelsea and I remember being kinda wowed by that lol. Of course I don’t remember anything about his presidency, first hand. Bush is who I remember for policy and actions. The 08 election was the first I could vote in.
I’m a little too young to remember Clinton being president, but I remember the 2000 election vividly. On Inauguration Day 2001, I was watching tv and I remember my moms friend telling me, in a fun way: “see that limousine? George w bush is in there with bill Clinton right now; and bill is telling him all the secrets of being president”
Anyway, that’s my earliest memory of a president. Clinton on his last day lol
Bush 41. I remember the Gulf War, but not the 1992 election.
The 2000 election was the first I remember having an interest in, and I seem to recall finding John McCain to be the most preferable candidate for some reason. I'm not remotely conservative.
I have no specific memories of Obama while he was President, but I remember that I knew he existed. I’m not American, if I was I’d probably have more memories
I was born in 1981 but likewise don’t have any real memories of Reagan, other than caricatures from Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” video and Mad magazine.
George HW Bush was the first president where I have memories of POTUS doing their job; speeches, etc. The Iraq War (Operation Desert Storm) was a BFD when I was in 4th grade.
Bill Clinton. I remember being in 2nd grade, my teacher had a board with the different levels of government on it and who our representatives were. That was an election year and as such, Clinton was eventually changed to Bush.
Born in 88, first president I was really aware of was Clinton. I was in third grade in 96 and I remember doing a report on him running for his second term. I had a graphic from a magazine that was like a political cartoon where he was a rabbit way far ahead in the polls, Dole was a turtle, and I don't know who Ross Perot was but he was wayyyyyy in the back. I thought the way it was drawn was so funny.
George but really only the end of it, I do remember Obama winning and my dad said he would only win when pigs flew so I made a qwip about catching some flying pigs. He was not happy.
Jimmy Carter.
I was born in 71 but I was an unusually curious child. I started watching the news when I was very young. Some of the earliest news events that I remember seeing in real time were the Oil shocks, the abandonment and eventual crash of Sky lab, the Construction of the Alaskan pipeline and the uS hostages in Iran. All those things happened when I was 8 or younger.
I VAGUELY remember Ford who left office when I was 5. But I don't remember Ford. I remember staying up late on Saturday nights and seeing Chevey Chase making fun of Ford for tripping down Air force Ones steps
LBJ, too. Born 18 days before Kennedy became president. But I remember watching LBJ on TV and he saying was "our president," and that we must listen to him.
I have more complex memories of Richard Nixon and Watergate.
Mom started letting me watch SNL when I (M44) was pretty young, I don’t really remember knowing exactly who Reagan was. I think I got the idea that he was USA and Thatcher was Britain (I’m Canadian) but my memories of the GHWB vs Dukakis election are pretty vivid. Again from SNL.
W. My first memory of anything political was my grandmother being up in arms about “them stealing Florida from Gore”.
But my teenage and early adult life was Obama so I remember a lot more about his presidency than I do W’s.
george w bush, i remember my lib dad telling me that he was killing people in iraq and i had a nightmare where he jumped out of a helicopter and stabbed someone in the back like sephiroth
born under H. W. Bush, and only sorta remember Clinton, if for nothing else cause he was parodied everywhere in 90s kid shows like Animaniacs and Arthur and on and on. Then came Dubya and for a while it was like you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone parodying Bush as a moron who can't talk.
Clinton- I remember watching meet the press with my dad on Sundays or watching the Today show weekdays & them talking about Monica Lewinsky- had no clue what they were talking about tho…
I defenitely have memories from the time when George W. was president, but I don’t remember hearing/noticing him, presumably because I was A) a child, and B) not American. So Obama for me. I distinctly recall when he visited my country (Sweden), for example. It was all the papers talked about. I remember walking past a teacher at my school who attempted to explain to a bunch of seven-ish year old kids who Obama was and why he was important.
I was born in 86 and, yeah, same. Clinton was basically the guy who had an affair, and when you're 12 it's the worst thing ever, and then Bush was the guy who lied to get us into war with Iraq and suddenly you have some perspective about what's really bad.
While Eisenhower was president when I was born, the first president I remember is John F. Kennedy. I remember sitting in kindergarten and looking at the alphabet spread out across the front of the room and thinking the letter E looks like Kennedy.
I was 7 when Hurricane Katrina hit, so was alive for Clinton, but my first vivid memory of a president was Bush's horrible response to Katrina. First election I remember was '08, and as a black man in America I really don't think that could be any more perfect.
I remember Richard Nixon. My mother loathed him (Nixon had the nerve to run against the Irish-Catholic JFK, who was a saint in our house).
She was gloating when Watergate was going on.
Eisenhower! Very reassuring and fatherly to a 6 year old’s eyes. I watched the Nixon-Kennedy debate and asked my parents why Ike couldn’t stay President.
I was vaguely aware of Nixon, mostly because my dad didn’t like him and would cuss about him, but Ford is the first one I really remember well. (My dad wasn’t partisan, he disliked most politicians, especially corrupt ones, which is why he hated Nixon. My mum, she told me later, had quite liked him.)
I remember someone making fun of me because Clinton beat GHWB…I had no clue about any of it but somehow this kid knew my parents voted for Bush and her parents voted for Clinton. Odd memory.
Nixon. I was so upset when the Watergate hearings started because people were picking on the President. Wasn't long before I realized he deserved it. I have never given an authority figure an automatic pass since then.
I remember the 92 election. First time I was aware of the Office of the President. We went to a family friend’s house to watch the results and everyone there was quite pleased.
Earliest I remember is a debate that had Ross Perot in it, so I guess George Bush in the 90s? I don't think I paid any attention to Reagan as a kid so I have no memories of anything he did
First one I remember is President Reagan. I was just starting to be old enough to look at the world and realize "hey, there's a world out there" when he left office.
The first president I really remember the name of was Obama (2002 kid), but I remember some white dude with grey hair as “the president.” So I guess I sorta remember Dubya
Clinton. In 1996, when I was 6, we were learning about the candidates and politics in 2nd grade (brief, idealistic child-friendly explanations, and there was a poster with the cartoon elephant and donkey at podiums waving American flags, with a small mouse in the middle with their own podium for independents.
We were asked what we thought the cartoon animals stood for (My answer: "Republicans are elephants because we have long memories and never forget. Democrats are donkeys because they're loud, obnoxious jackasses"), and who we wanted to be elected president, and my 6-year-old Republican-raised brain could not comprehend that the "wrong" president was in power, but I said 'Bill Clinton because he seems to be doing a good job so far, despite being Baptist" anyway, despite trying to find reasons to support Bob Dole.
Nixon was the first one I remember. I was born during the Johnson administration, but too young to remember any of it (I was 4 years old when Nixon won in 68).
Obama, I don’t remember him being elected though, I very briefly remember 2012 but no more than my dad asking who I wanted to win. I said Obama because he was the current president and I had no clue who Romney was lol. I do vividly remember parts about 2016 though.
Born in 96, the first time I remember being aware of a president was Bush because he visited our small town during his campaign.
So I guess I knew of him before his was president. I didn’t have a clue of Clinton until long after he left.
George H.W. Bush, I remember his photo being up in my school in elementary. Other than that I remember listening to the Obama/McCain election with my dad on the radio.
Clinton. I "supported" him too cause he had a small ad on a nickelodeon awards show when he was running for reelection. Don't remember a word of it but I was sold lol
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George Washington..cause he is first
Dammit Grassley, get off the internet, and retire already
As long as Grassley is in the senate he isn't able to direct all his energy toward how the History Channel doesn't show any history shows anymore
Ikr... We learned bout all of em...
Born in 81 so I remember Reagan. First election though was Bush 88.
first election at 7 or 8 was a core memory
I'm younger, but I feel this way about Obama Vs. McCain, following every news station covering this election!
Same here lol
I was 8 in 2000, so Bush v. Gore is the first election I remember. I got so upset that Florida ended up purple on my election night map.
The first US president I can remember was Richard Nixon. There was a variety show on British TV in which a guy called David Nixon performed some amazingly entertaining tricks. There was this other guy called Richard Nixon, and he also did tricks. I got the two guys mixed up, but I realised that some of Richard Nixon's tricks were dirty ones, and that he was in trouble.
Tricky dick
Obamna
Soda
*SODA!
Dubya
I'm 30 and I remember Bill Clinton. I also remember going with my parents to vote in 2000 and being able to "vote" on the kids ballot.
Carter vaguely, but mostly Reagan.
I remember Ford vaguely, but mostly Carter.
Everybody alive in the 70s remembers Ford vaguely, mostly through Chevy Chase and Saturday Night Live.
Obama. Even as a non-American he was very popular here and it was a big deal when he visited my country.
Bush Sr. Born during Reagan. Same thing about remembering the 88 election but don’t actually remember Reagan being president.
Clinton. Born in 1988. One of my earliest memories is playing with Legos in my room and a news report came talking about him. What’s funny is at that time they used to air Simpson reruns every week night at 6 & 6:30 which is always watch. After talking about Clinton the news reporter said something like “And another shocking turn today in the Simpson Trial, we’ll bring you the latest” and I got mad because I thought she meant they were going to skip the Simpsons to talk about some trial with Clinton
In 4th grade, we did have to do some project thing where we read up on candidates and vote for one, and I remember picking Obama over Romney. I was vaguely aware of his existence for part of his first term and the entirety of his second, but I wasn't aware of any policy or presidential actions. Just that some dude named Obama was president.
Nixon.
Nixon memory: I drew horns on him and my dad got upset. He disliked Nixon, but as a military officer he said we need to respect the office and its holder. But when he resigned, Tricky Dick was fair game in our house to some jokes for sure.
I remember as a very young child (as in two or three) I heard the name “President Bush” on the radio (W. Bush), I remember looking outside the kitchen window and seeing a bush in our garden. That’s the first presidential memory I have. There was also watching Barack Obama’s inauguration. That was a good memory. In terms of historical presidents, I really liked President Eisenhower because I had an Eisenhower dollar gifted to me at a young age.
I like Ike
I remember my grandma had an old button that said that and she had explained it was for president Eisenhower. Didn't understand since his name was Dwight
Kennedy. I remember the funeral on our tiny black and white TV. I was very young.
The first president that I remember was Bill Clinton. That's because he was the man on TV that my mom told me was the president. I was born in 1992, so Clinton's presidency lines up nicely with my early years.
Wait, is your neighbor still alive and was alive during his presidency?? Taft served only served until 1913, so she would have to be one of the oldest people alive at this point, hahaha.
lol, no. She died in the 90’s, was born in the 1890’s and almost made 100. She was an awesome lady, though. She was a fingerprint analyst for the FBI.
Ford
Clinton and his blowies, oh the times.
Going to say Clinton if only for the middle school jokes that circulated
Yeah, that's where I was at with it as well, haha. He was a scandalous saxophone-playing president who beat my Jackson / Mouse write-in for the mock 1996 elections. Boo!
Nixon
I think that I vaguely remember Nixon. Ford definitely rings a bell, and by the time I got to Carter I had some childlike idea of what a President was and what he did.
Johnson. Which one, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Reagan. I remember visiting my great aunt and her telling me stories about good old Cal Coolidge.
Bush 41. Specifically the election in 1992.
Carter
I still remember the first time I ever learned what a President was - and it was when Reagan died (I was six). The 2004 elections were also coming up, and needless to say, I thought they were running to replace Reagan (in my defense, I had a similar discovery experience with Pope John Paul II, and there was an election to replace HIM). So yeah, W. is the first one I really remember, though I was born during Clinton’s second term.
I was born in 04 and didn't realize bush was president for 4 years until like 2016
I remember hearing of Reagan and Bush at the same time. I would have been 6 years old. I don't remember one before the other. I remember learning of both during the election year of 88. Clinton was the president when I learned what politics really were though. Or at least started getting an idea.
Kennedy
I was born during the Clinton years (1994), and I have some brief memory that he *was* the President, but I knew nothing about him or what that meant. The first election I remember was 2000, and I knew a lot of people were angry about how it turned out, but again, didn’t know why. (I also didn’t know that controversial elections were abnormal, as that was the first one I was old enough to remember.)
Controversial elections certainly aren't abnormal now, unfortunately...
Clinton
JFK.
President Bill Clinton he became really infamous thanks to affair with intern.
I remember Bill Clinton. I was in kindergarten and there was a girl in my class named Hillary and a girl named Chelsea and I remember being kinda wowed by that lol. Of course I don’t remember anything about his presidency, first hand. Bush is who I remember for policy and actions. The 08 election was the first I could vote in.
I’m a little too young to remember Clinton being president, but I remember the 2000 election vividly. On Inauguration Day 2001, I was watching tv and I remember my moms friend telling me, in a fun way: “see that limousine? George w bush is in there with bill Clinton right now; and bill is telling him all the secrets of being president” Anyway, that’s my earliest memory of a president. Clinton on his last day lol
I remember Clinton, but what I really remember politically from that time is my mom screaming at Newt Gingrich through the TV.
I was born during Truman’s term but the first President that I remember was Ike.
Reagan. The man that killed the middle class and allowed medical to be for profit.
Kennedy
Reagan. I'm getting up there.
Bush Sr. I was 4 when Clinton won.
Clinton
Seeing the president on screen and talking would be Obama, my most vivid memory is the bin Laden announcement
Obama? Maybe the 2nd coming of Bush but I really don’t remember
Bush 41. I remember the Gulf War, but not the 1992 election. The 2000 election was the first I remember having an interest in, and I seem to recall finding John McCain to be the most preferable candidate for some reason. I'm not remotely conservative.
George Washington
Bush Jr, 9/11 era
Clinton
George W Bush
Bush Sr. I remember watching a Tiny Toon Adventures episode that made fun of him, Barbara, and Dan Quayle 😂
Obama, the 2nd Obama's presidency to be precise, I was watching news with family and we caught some of his speeches on TV.
I have no specific memories of Obama while he was President, but I remember that I knew he existed. I’m not American, if I was I’d probably have more memories
George Dubya. A little Clinton but 9/11 made child me actually notice the president lol.
Dubya. Its only vague, I basically just knew his name and some idea of what he looked like.
George Washington is the first one that comes to mind.
Gore
Jimmy Carter
Clinton
Nixon’s resignation is one of my first memories
Nixon.
Obama. I was born under Dubya
Obama
I was born in 1981 but likewise don’t have any real memories of Reagan, other than caricatures from Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” video and Mad magazine. George HW Bush was the first president where I have memories of POTUS doing their job; speeches, etc. The Iraq War (Operation Desert Storm) was a BFD when I was in 4th grade.
Bush Jr. I remember my parents taking me with them while they went to vote I was probably around 6/7
Clinton. I was born the week he was elected.
It's probably Obama, I don't remember much about bush jr's presidency but I remember my teacher having the class vote for Obama or McCain.
LBJ
Bush
Reagan
I remember seeing Eisenhower talking on TV, but the first one I remember vividly is Kennedy.
Bill Clinton. I remember being in 2nd grade, my teacher had a board with the different levels of government on it and who our representatives were. That was an election year and as such, Clinton was eventually changed to Bush.
HW Bush because I immigrated to the USA in 1992.
Obamna
Richard Nixon
Clinton; I remember cartoons used to caricature him as a kid so I had a good idea of who he was and what he was like
Clinton. I kept calling him Clayton because I was obsessed with Tarzan.
W
Nixon
I was alive during HW, but I only remember Clinton being elected the first time. And only because my dad was really mad 😂
W. Bush
Clinton
Rule 3
Born in 88, first president I was really aware of was Clinton. I was in third grade in 96 and I remember doing a report on him running for his second term. I had a graphic from a magazine that was like a political cartoon where he was a rabbit way far ahead in the polls, Dole was a turtle, and I don't know who Ross Perot was but he was wayyyyyy in the back. I thought the way it was drawn was so funny.
Born in 88. The first one I remember was Clinton.
George but really only the end of it, I do remember Obama winning and my dad said he would only win when pigs flew so I made a qwip about catching some flying pigs. He was not happy.
Ford
LBJ
Jimmy Carter. I was born in 71 but I was an unusually curious child. I started watching the news when I was very young. Some of the earliest news events that I remember seeing in real time were the Oil shocks, the abandonment and eventual crash of Sky lab, the Construction of the Alaskan pipeline and the uS hostages in Iran. All those things happened when I was 8 or younger. I VAGUELY remember Ford who left office when I was 5. But I don't remember Ford. I remember staying up late on Saturday nights and seeing Chevey Chase making fun of Ford for tripping down Air force Ones steps
LBJ, too. Born 18 days before Kennedy became president. But I remember watching LBJ on TV and he saying was "our president," and that we must listen to him. I have more complex memories of Richard Nixon and Watergate.
Bill Clinton was President when I started elementary school and he’s the first president I remember although he was the 3rd president of my lifetime.
I was born during the final months of Clinton’s presidency. I remember Bush, specifically around Hurricane Katrina first.
Carter
Bush Sr was President when I was born, but Clinton is the first I reminder.
George W. Bush, first election I remember is 2004
Reagan
Nixon. According to my parents, I’d do an impression of Nixon saying “I am not a crook.”
I was born in 86 but have no real memory of HW. I remember Dana Carvey's impersonation better. Clinton is the first president I can actually remember.
I vaguely remember Dubya. Obama was the first one I have clear memories of as president.
Obama, but the first election I was aware of was the 2016 one. I'm not American BTW.
Bush Jr, he was not well liked in NZ.
Washington or Obama I’m not sure which. I was about 8-10 when I realized he was our president lol
Dubya (I was born in ‘96)
Dubya
Mom started letting me watch SNL when I (M44) was pretty young, I don’t really remember knowing exactly who Reagan was. I think I got the idea that he was USA and Thatcher was Britain (I’m Canadian) but my memories of the GHWB vs Dukakis election are pretty vivid. Again from SNL.
Clinton but I also remember Bush saying, "Read my lips, no new taxes." Just didn't know at the time he was president.
obama
Nixon. I'm 65 (and not American).
Reagan but barely. I remember HW Bush and the Gulf War more concretely.
First one I can remember is Ford. I was born in 72 so not bad for a 4 year old to know who was POTUS.
W. My first memory of anything political was my grandmother being up in arms about “them stealing Florida from Gore”. But my teenage and early adult life was Obama so I remember a lot more about his presidency than I do W’s.
Obama
Eisenhower saw him when he came to the city where i lived in ‘56, i was ten years old.
george w bush, i remember my lib dad telling me that he was killing people in iraq and i had a nightmare where he jumped out of a helicopter and stabbed someone in the back like sephiroth
Nixon. Everyone hated him.
born under H. W. Bush, and only sorta remember Clinton, if for nothing else cause he was parodied everywhere in 90s kid shows like Animaniacs and Arthur and on and on. Then came Dubya and for a while it was like you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone parodying Bush as a moron who can't talk.
Reagan. Asshole that he was
Clinton- I remember watching meet the press with my dad on Sundays or watching the Today show weekdays & them talking about Monica Lewinsky- had no clue what they were talking about tho…
Reagan
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Carter. I was born about a month after Nixon resigned but don't remember Ford at all.
I defenitely have memories from the time when George W. was president, but I don’t remember hearing/noticing him, presumably because I was A) a child, and B) not American. So Obama for me. I distinctly recall when he visited my country (Sweden), for example. It was all the papers talked about. I remember walking past a teacher at my school who attempted to explain to a bunch of seven-ish year old kids who Obama was and why he was important.
Bush, Jr. Edit: Born during Clinton's reign
Clinton. I recall his impeachment interrupting my Saturday morning cartoons haha
Clinton, Reagan was in office when I was born.
Eisenhower. That’s right. Eisenhower.
Kind of Clinton, but mainly W. I didn’t really understand the presidency when Clinton was in office, but I remember W well enough.
I was born in 86 and, yeah, same. Clinton was basically the guy who had an affair, and when you're 12 it's the worst thing ever, and then Bush was the guy who lied to get us into war with Iraq and suddenly you have some perspective about what's really bad.
Eisenhower was president when I was born, Kennedy was killed when I was 3. I can't remember it, so LBJ is the first one I can clearly remember.
I have flashes of Clinton’s admission in my memory but the first one I remember well is dubya
Saw HW Boarding AF1 after speaking in my city at a campaign event, right before he lost to old Slick Willy.
While Eisenhower was president when I was born, the first president I remember is John F. Kennedy. I remember sitting in kindergarten and looking at the alphabet spread out across the front of the room and thinking the letter E looks like Kennedy.
There’s a video of me as a five year old doing a Bill Clinton impression
the second term of Eisenhower.
I was 7 when Hurricane Katrina hit, so was alive for Clinton, but my first vivid memory of a president was Bush's horrible response to Katrina. First election I remember was '08, and as a black man in America I really don't think that could be any more perfect.
Kennedy. Jackie looked a bit like my mom and so they had a vague aunt & uncle vibe. I am a little younger than Caroline so it was timely.
Clinton
I remember Richard Nixon. My mother loathed him (Nixon had the nerve to run against the Irish-Catholic JFK, who was a saint in our house). She was gloating when Watergate was going on.
Eisenhower! Very reassuring and fatherly to a 6 year old’s eyes. I watched the Nixon-Kennedy debate and asked my parents why Ike couldn’t stay President.
Reagan
Probably the end of George W Bush or the start of Obama first term
Dubya
I was vaguely aware of Nixon, mostly because my dad didn’t like him and would cuss about him, but Ford is the first one I really remember well. (My dad wasn’t partisan, he disliked most politicians, especially corrupt ones, which is why he hated Nixon. My mum, she told me later, had quite liked him.)
I remember someone making fun of me because Clinton beat GHWB…I had no clue about any of it but somehow this kid knew my parents voted for Bush and her parents voted for Clinton. Odd memory.
Nixon. I was so upset when the Watergate hearings started because people were picking on the President. Wasn't long before I realized he deserved it. I have never given an authority figure an automatic pass since then.
Nixon and Ford. I had no idea what Watergate was.
I remember the 92 election. First time I was aware of the Office of the President. We went to a family friend’s house to watch the results and everyone there was quite pleased.
JFK
obama bush jr was the president when i was young but we didnt talk about politics to much when i was little
Earliest I remember is a debate that had Ross Perot in it, so I guess George Bush in the 90s? I don't think I paid any attention to Reagan as a kid so I have no memories of anything he did
First one I remember is President Reagan. I was just starting to be old enough to look at the world and realize "hey, there's a world out there" when he left office.
Richard Nixon
Bush Jr !
John F. Kennedy
Ike
Nixon.
JFK
The first president I really remember the name of was Obama (2002 kid), but I remember some white dude with grey hair as “the president.” So I guess I sorta remember Dubya
Obama. I was alive during Bush, but I didn't know of him being a President until later on.
Barack Obama
The first president I really remember is George W. I was born in the late 90's and would be lying if I said I remember Clinton.
Eisenhower, the last sane honest Republican.
Clinton. In 1996, when I was 6, we were learning about the candidates and politics in 2nd grade (brief, idealistic child-friendly explanations, and there was a poster with the cartoon elephant and donkey at podiums waving American flags, with a small mouse in the middle with their own podium for independents. We were asked what we thought the cartoon animals stood for (My answer: "Republicans are elephants because we have long memories and never forget. Democrats are donkeys because they're loud, obnoxious jackasses"), and who we wanted to be elected president, and my 6-year-old Republican-raised brain could not comprehend that the "wrong" president was in power, but I said 'Bill Clinton because he seems to be doing a good job so far, despite being Baptist" anyway, despite trying to find reasons to support Bob Dole.
Nixon was the first one I remember. I was born during the Johnson administration, but too young to remember any of it (I was 4 years old when Nixon won in 68).
Obama, I don’t remember him being elected though, I very briefly remember 2012 but no more than my dad asking who I wanted to win. I said Obama because he was the current president and I had no clue who Romney was lol. I do vividly remember parts about 2016 though.
George W. Bush. I was too young during the Clinton years to know anything about him or even who he was.
Born in 96, the first time I remember being aware of a president was Bush because he visited our small town during his campaign. So I guess I knew of him before his was president. I didn’t have a clue of Clinton until long after he left.
Nixon. I was convinced he was going to break in and steal our scotch tape. There wasn't much else on TV in the spring of '74.
Nixon
Reagan
Carter. I was born in 1974 and I remember the 1980 election.
George H.W. Bush, I remember his photo being up in my school in elementary. Other than that I remember listening to the Obama/McCain election with my dad on the radio.
For me it’s Bill Clinton. But my Great Grandmother remembered Calvin Coolidge being president
Clinton. I "supported" him too cause he had a small ad on a nickelodeon awards show when he was running for reelection. Don't remember a word of it but I was sold lol
Carter I guess. One of my earliest memories was watching Reagan's inauguration.
Kennedy