Today is Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Today in
U.S. President History

1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.

1945 - King Abd al-Aziz Saud of Saudi Arabia wrote a letter to U.S. President Roosevelt to warn him that Jews in Palestine were, "planning to create a Nazi-Fascist entity in the name of democracy and its vision."

1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.




U.S. President Quotes

"There is nothing I have more at heart than the ease and security of every part of the Country and its inhabitants." - George Washington, letter to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, December 19, 1778

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