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Is there much widespread agreement on what the Baby Boom years are? I have three siblings born before 1965, but I never thought of them as Boomers.

  I've always thought of "boomers" as those who remember or were at least greatly influenced by the Kennedy presidency. I was born under Kennedy, but far too late to remember him as president (or even Johnson for that matter), so I never considered myself a "boomer". My older sister, maybe (b. 1957), and certainly my uncles born in the fifties. --LDC

Who coined the phrase?

I would take issue with the claim that the reason that they are influential right now is that they are in great numbers. It's at least as plausible to think they're influential because they're in the prime of life. --LMS

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