In first grade we were reading about Amelia Earhart, and how Roosevelt was president at the time. However, I did not understand that "First Lady" meant you were the president's wife, I thought it meant Eleanor Roosevelt was the first woman who ever existed!
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- 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
- My 18 year old brother thought the former vice president was named Al Gorbachov.— Jeff
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- I used to believe that when it thundered, it meant the devil was beating his wife.— Carol
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon