U.S. President History
1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower increased the minimum wage to $1 an hour.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed a relief package for the flooded areas of the Midwest United States.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton lifted the ban on rehiring air traffic controllers that had been fired for going on strike in 1981.
2015 - It was announced that former President Jimmy Carter had cancer and that he would undergo treatment in Atlanta, GA.
| "Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - U.S. President John Adams |