I was 19 years old at the time and still living at home. Early in the day I had proudly voted, for the first time, for Ronald Reagan. My mother who was a Jehovah’s Witness was not happy that I’d left that religion and voted. She saw my voting as the last nail in my coffin and the end to her hopes of me “living forever on a paradise earth”.
Had I been able to vote four years earlier I would have voted for Carter. Thank God for voting age limits!
[I was 19 years old at the time and still living at home. Early in the day I had proudly voted, for the first time, for Ronald Reagan.]
Same here. Graduated at 17 in June 1980, turned 18 on Oct. 26th of that year, ran out and registered and voted for Reagan in my first election.
A proud moment indeed and always a great memory. This country was in dire straits back then.