Today is Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Today in
U.S. President History

1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief executive to travel to Europe while in office.

1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration. The program had been created in order to provide jobs during the Great Depression.

1992 - U.S. President Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.




U.S. President Quotes

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering." - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt

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