U.S. President History
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1945 - King Abd al-Aziz Saud of Saudi Arabia wrote a letter to U.S. President Roosevelt to warn him that Jews in Palestine were, "planning to create a Nazi-Fascist entity in the name of democracy and its vision."
1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
| "I like the noise of democracy." - James Buchanan |