U.S. President History
1917 - U.S. President Wilson pled for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April.
1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison.
1973 - The thirty-sixth president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, died.
2009 - U.S. President Obama signed an order to close within a year the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where the U.S. had held non-citizens whom it accused of terrorism.
| "My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage." - U.S. President Gerald Ford. |