I was born in 1971. I don't remember Nixon resigning. I do remember Carter being elected president. All my memories of Gerald Ford, however, have somehow morphed into Chevy Chase falling off the podium on 'Saturday Night Live.'
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that everytime we elected a president was because the old one died!!:)— angel
- I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.— Ginger
- I used to believe that President Ford invented the automobile.Anon
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- Does anybody remember that song "OUT OF REACH" well i remember i used to sing it as "BATTEERRRRYYY". — meeeeeeeee
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon