U.S. President History
1860 - At the Republican convention in Chicago, IL, Abraham Lincoln was selected as the party's candidate for president.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
2000 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.
| "If this bill were presented to me, I would veto it. America's all-volunteer military is the best in the world, and reinstating the draft would be bad policy. (October 7, 2004)" - U.S. President George W. Bush commending the U.S. House of Representatives for rejecting a "Reinstate the Draft" bill. |