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i believed that the president was the king of the world so i was sooo excited when our 1st grade class wrote to him and got a reply! then when the president changed i started crying because i always thought that when you became president you died 4 years later! hahahahaha wow i was really stupid
zlata
I used to hear on TV all the time about the "government", and think it was an actual person who was even more important and powerful than the president, except nobody actually saw him or knew his name.
Brandon Campbell
True story: When i was in first grade and the first Gulf War was going on, i thought Saddam Hussein's name was Saddam "Who's Sayin"
I'm like, Saying What?
Holly
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I used to hear adults using the phrase "sectarian violence" in relation to Northern Ireland and think it had something to do with garden secateurs. I also thought the "Cod War" between Britain and Iceland in the 70s was some sort of battle being fought by the fish themselves.
Gary Hird
for the longest time i thought that Stockwell Day was some kind of holiday about the stock market. but stockwell day was a leader of the canadian alliance (or something). it's not my fault if his name is weird!
mop
I used to believe that "the bomb" was literally one bomb and resided in the White House, and I was fearful that some cleaning lady might drop it when dusting and that would be the end of us.
tcbyrd
I used to believe that the Jewish Settlers in Gaza and the West Bank should move back and give the land back to the Palace Indians.
El Gringo
I used to think that the President of the United States did the evening news because Ronald Reagan looked a lot like Dan Rather to me.
Andrea
I used to believe that George Washington was trying to talk to me whenever I got water up my nose during a bath. To this day, I have no idea why.
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I used to think that everyone in the country got a turn at being President. I was scared because I didn't want that kind of responsibility or public attention.
Laith
On the TV news I was used to them showing a photo of a person's face in the corner of the screen with the name of that person underneath. So one day they showed Ayatollah Khomeini, with "IRAN" underneath, and I thought Iran was his name.
Brandon Campbell
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I was pretty small when Nixon was President. I thought "Watergate" was a type of alligator.
Ginger
when I was very small Margaret Thatcher was still prime minister of Britain, and I used to think that she and the queen were the same person.
Megan
i used to think that Nassar Hussein(the captain of the England cricket team) and Saddam Hussein were the same person.
i used to think that groucho marx and karl marx were brothers.
I was born in the late fifties and went to grade school in the early to mid sixties-
JFK was asassinated in 1963- Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy asassinated in 1968.
I used to believe that all US Presidents died by asassination.
Mark Burroughs
I used to believe there was a Russian Leader named Garbage Trough and an Arabian named Are A Fat
Anon
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While growing up in the late 70s and 80s, my father always referred to Communists as "Communist Bastards". He never said the first word without the other. So, in elementary school when we were talking about world history one day, I remember raising my hand and answering, "Because the Communist Bastards ..." It was pretty embarrassing.
Jennifer Volz
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I was 6 in 1974. I thought President Nixon was in trouble for stealings scotch tape. I kept imagining him climbing up my parents' fire escape and looking for scotch tape in my parents' room.
Mike O
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As a child, I thought that President Ford and actor Harrison Ford were the same person. Upon seeing Harrison Ford's movie "Air Force One", I told my mother "You know, he does such a good job being president, he should become the real US president again".
Alison
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