When I was about 6 I thought the President got to be President because he was the best human being there was in the whole country and that an election was some kind of beauty contest for men. When the word "Watergate" kept getting mentioned on the TV news I thought it had something to do with a dam (perfectly logical assumption for a 7 year old kid) but when I asked "What's Watergate?" all I got for an answer was " The President told a lie." Somehow I got the notion that if you were President and you told a lie you would have to be killed for the punishment, or sent to jail forever. It took an amazingly long time for me to be completely disabused of this belief; now I take it for granted that the President will always lie because it's what Presidents always do, and what's more, they will always get away with it.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- I used to believe that the loser of the Presidential election became the VICE President. — AirInSea
- My 18 year old brother thought the former vice president was named Al Gorbachov.— Jeff
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - I thought that FDR was an government organization during the Great Depression, not a president.Anon
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon