U.S. President History
1793 - Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon flight in North America. The event was witnessed by U.S. President George Washington.
1832 - Abraham Lincoln announced that he would run for a political office for the first time. He was unsuccessful in his run for a seat in the Illinois state legislature.
1989 - In the U.S., President Bush urged for a mandatory death penalty in drug-related killings.
2006 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law a renewal of the USA Patriot Act.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama removed limits on using federal funds for embryonic stem cell research that had been put in place by U.S. President George W. Bush.
| "My position is that the foreign policy of the United States says we do not believe there should be new settlements in the West Bank or in East Jerusalem. And I will conduct that policy as if it's firm, which it is, and I will be shaped in whatever decisions we make to see whether people can comply with that policy. And that's our strongly held view." - President George H.W. Bush, press conference, March 3, 1990 |