U.S. President History
1905 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Elanor Roosevelt were married.
1941 - The National Gallery of Art was officially opened by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon asked Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan agreed to a joint study with Canada on acid rain.
1991 - Israel's Prime Minister Shamir said that Israel would never give up the occupied territories and declared the Golan Heights "part of Israel." On March 7th, U.S. President Bush had called upon Israel to abide by U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 as well as the principle of "territory for peace."
1995 - Gerry Adams became the first leader of Sinn Fein to be received at the White House.
2003 - U.S. President Bush announced that Saddam Hussein had 48 hours to leave Iraq.
| "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - U.S. President John Adams |