U.S. President History
1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge vetoed a subsidy farm-relief bill. He called it a price-fixing plan.
1935 - The U.S. Senate upheld President Roosevelt's presidential veto of the Patman Bill.
1955 - John F. Kennedy returned to the U.S. Senate after back surgery and a 7 month recuperation period.
1992 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees.
2016 - U.S. President Obama announced that the United States would end its ban of lethal military equipment sales to Vietnam. The restrictions had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War.
| "As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children." - U.S. President John Adams |