U.S. President History
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.
1910 - The U.S. Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000.
1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
| "Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - U.S. President John Adams |