U.S. President History
1782 - In Newburgh, NY, General George Washington created the "Badge of Military Merit." On Washington's 200th birthday (February 22, 1932) the U.S. War Department announced the creation of the "Order of the Purple Heart."
1964 - The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered U.S. troops and warplanes to Saudi Arabia to guard against a possible invasion by Iraq.
| "The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them." - U.S. President George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 |