When I was 4-5, during the waning years of the Reagan administration, I was convinced that the President delivered the CBS Evening News every night. It was not until President Bush I was inaugurated that I realized that Dan Rather and Ronald Reagan were, in fact, different people.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!— JB
- I used to think that Margeret Thatcher was married to Ronald Reagan, because they were always on tv together!— Nat
- i thought president Bush was an actuall bush.— oops
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- i used to believe that everytime we elected a president was because the old one died!!:)— angel
- I used to believe that the loser of the Presidential election became the VICE President. — AirInSea