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… Senate (1799-1800).In 1800, Dexter accepted an offer from President John Adams to join his cabinet as secretary of war. … a convenient solution for the final months of the Adams presidency. With the arrival of the Jefferson administration …
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… Massachusetts Supreme Court. He then became the first of President Ulysses S. Grant’s five attorney generals. During … of Attorney General to the Department of Justice. In 1869, President Grant nominated Hoar to a seat on the United States …
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… States Congress in 1828 but was defeated. Two years later, President Andrew Jackson appointed him collector of customs … from being wiped out by the Panic of 1837. Siding with President John Tyler in 1841, the President rewarded …
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… 1795, he became U.S. postmaster general by appointment of President George Washington, a post he held until the end of … practiced as a young man. In 1802, he rose to the presidency of the Georgia branch of the Bank of the United …
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… Senate (1799-1800).In 1800, Dexter accepted an offer from President John Adams to join his cabinet as secretary of war. … a convenient solution for the final months of the Adams presidency. With the arrival of the Jefferson administration …
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… State Supreme Court from 1973 to 1981. Clark served President Ronald Reagan in several capacities: as deputy secretary of state (1981-1982), as assistant to the President for national security affairs (1982-1983), and as …
Presidential Recordings
… of part of a meeting held on August 15, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of Agriculture …
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… played important roles in their father's life while he was President, offering him emotional comfort, tending to the … through the Depression and the Second World War. But the President still found time to relax. He enjoyed collecting …
Presidential Recordings
… Sound recording of a meeting held on July 22, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and White House staffers. This …
Presidential Recordings
… recording of a meeting held on August 26, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union's (U.S.S.R.) …
Presidential Speeches
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of the 94th Congress, and distinguished … at the back of this great chamber—over there someplace—as President Truman, all charged up by his single-handed … stress of the Vietnam War, legislative restrictions on the President's ability to execute foreign policy and military …
Presidential Recordings
… Sound recording of a meeting held on May 28, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Foreign Minister of the …
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… Senate Democratic Conference, was a close friend of the President and his family who often had frank exchanges with Johnson. In this call, President Johnson gave Smathers a colorful analysis of the …
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… Even before her husband became the first President of the United States, Martha Dandridge Custis … to take on the public responsibilities demanded of the President's wife. Indeed, when George Washington became …
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… It was not William Howard Taft's highest ambition to become President of the United States: it was his wife's. Of the … eyes focused on presidential politics. Others, including President Theodore Roosevelt, urged Taft to think of himself …
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… Christian Herter served as secretary of state to President Eisenhower from April 22, 1959, to January 20, … the European countries. President Kennedy named him the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, on …
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… admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C. (1820). In 1826, President John Quincy Adams tapped him to serve as his … Pierce. Dix supported James Buchanan’s bid for the presidency in 1856 and was rewarded with the postmastership …
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… and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President from 1995 to 1997. He was also undersecretary at the Department of Energy from 1997 to 2001. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Moniz to the Science and …
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… 1929, the same year he was admitted to the Colorado bar. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Brannan assistant … a short time as assistant administrator of the FSA, until President Roosevelt tapped him to become his assistant …
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… from the Mexican-American War of 1850. He also worked as president of the Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad … Convention and supported Abraham Lincoln’s nomination for President. The following year, President Lincoln tapped Smith …