U.S. President History
1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.
1952 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure U.S. steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. On June 2 the seizure was declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1988 - Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a treaty that would shrink the limit of nuclear warheads to 1,550 per country over seven years.
| "If this bill were presented to me, I would veto it. America's all-volunteer military is the best in the world, and reinstating the draft would be bad policy. (October 7, 2004)" - U.S. President George W. Bush commending the U.S. House of Representatives for rejecting a "Reinstate the Draft" bill. |