U.S. President History
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president.
1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 - U.S. President Nixon was reelected.
1973 - The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.
2015 - The license plates from U.S. President Kennedy's presidential limousine were put up for auction by Heritage Auctions of Dallas. The plates were about to expire while the car was being refurbished after Kennedy's assassination. The plates sold for $100,000.
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