U.S. President History
1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge vetoed a subsidy farm-relief bill. He called it a price-fixing plan.
1935 - The U.S. Senate upheld President Roosevelt's presidential veto of the Patman Bill.
1955 - John F. Kennedy returned to the U.S. Senate after back surgery and a 7 month recuperation period.
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees.
2016 - U.S. President Obama announced that the United States would end its ban of lethal military equipment sales to Vietnam. The restrictions had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War.
| "No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law." - Grover Cleveland |