U.S. President History
1935 - The Works Progress Administation began operations following and executive order signed by President Frankin D. Roosevelt.
1950 - U.S. President Harry Truman asked that Hawaii and Alaska be admitted as states in the interest of national security.
1957 - U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage".
1960 - U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
2020 - U.S. President Donald Trump reversed plans to wind down his Covid-19 task force. The focus was shifted toward the economy and developing a vaccine.
| "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 |