U.S. President History
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.
| "Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins." - Chester Allen Arthur |