LBJ and before him Kennedy. I wasn't old enough to vote, but I remember crying when Kennedy beat Nixon in 1960.
I guess I was politically precocious!
And then Nixon ran again like in the late seventies and won? I didn't cry when Kennedy beat Nixon. I started paying attention during the Cuban missile crisis. Some of my school friends had actual bomb shelters in their basements stocked with stuff.
I was always more afraid of tornadoes though and drug all my Barbie dolls to the basement if their was a warning. There was lots of tornadic activity in DASCHLE COUNTRY. lol You know, the way he runs hot and cold - that causes tornadic activity in SD.