U.S. President History
1947 - The U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Higher Education Act of 1972. Title IX of this congressional act barred sex bias in athletics and other activities at colleges receiving federal assistance.
| "Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. We will accept no outcome but victory." - George W. Bush, in a speech that he announced the beginning of the disarmament or Iraq on March 19, 2003. |