U.S. President History
1767 - Andrew Jackson was born. He became the 7th President of the United States.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.
1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 troops, under General Pershing, over the border of Mexico to pursue bandit Pancho Villa. The mission failed.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared 221,000 acres or public land as Jackson Hole National Monument.
1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton extended the moratorium on nuclear testing until September of 1995.
1998 - CBS' "60 Minutes" aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey. Wiley said U.S. President Clinton made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993.
2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush urged Hezbollah to disarm and to stay out of Israeli-Palestinian disputes.
| "The Iraqi regime will disarm itself or the Iraqi regime will be disarmed by force." - George W. Bush |