U.S. President History
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.
2009 - One of the last autographs by John F. Kennedy sold at auction for $39,000. Kennedy signed a copy of the Dallas Morning News that was handed to him by a woman in the crowd about two hours before his assassination. The grey fedora worn by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $53,775 at the same auction.
| "America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful people of all faiths -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and many others. Every faith is practiced and protected here, because we are one country. Every immigrant can be fully and equally American because we're one country. Race and color should not divide us, because America is one country." - U.S. President George W. Bush Promotes Compassionate Conservatism, April 30, 2002 |