U.S. President History
1812 - U.S. President James Madison, in a message to Congress, recounted what he called Britain’s "series of acts hostile to the United States as an independent and neutral nation." The U.S. Congress ended up declaring war.
1868 - The fifteenth president of the United States, James Buchanan, died.
1978 - The East Building at the Nation Gallery of Art was dedicated by Paul Mellon and U.S. President Carter.
1990 - U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed a bilateral agreement to stop producing chemical arms and to begin destroying their stocks by the end of 1992.
2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump declared he was pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.
2021 - The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The act reveresed a drilling program approved by the Trump administration.
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