I thought Richard Nixon was God because he could interrupt any TV show, even on public television (this was during Watergate when I was 7 or 8; tricky dick was on TV a lot then)
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 always thought that Little Richard was Cliff Richards younger brother— adam
- I thought the Virgin Islands were owned by Richard Branson until I was 24. — LJ
- I used to think "from which it stands" was "for Richard Stans".
— cobra - I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- Until recently, my friend believed that Richard Starkey was the fifth Beatle.— Spook