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Presidential Speeches
… Bill Shadel of ABC News. It's my privilege this evening to preside at this the third in the series of meetings on radio … Angeles studio, the Republican presidential nominee, Vice President Richard M. Nixon; now joined for tonight's …
Presidential Biographies
… Senate seat of James Harlan, who had resigned to become President Andrew Johnson's secretary of the interior. … States Senator. He did not fulfill his full term, as President Garfield tapped him in 1881 to become secretary of …
Presidential Recordings
… 1971 Time: 8:04 am - 9:43 am Location: Cabinet Room The President met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, John N. Irwin, II, John B. … of seeing youth -White House staff -Recommendations President’s April 26, 1971 meeting with bipartisan United …
Presidential Biographies
… becoming a Methodist lay leader, serving as school board president, and establishing the Denison Normal and Business … percent of the vote and completed two terms as governor. President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Shaw as secretary of …
Presidential Biographies
… James Randolph Garfield, the son of President James Abram Garfield, was born in Hiram, Ohio, on … in the Department of Commerce & Labor in February 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Garfield secretary of …
Presidential Biographies
… and 1904, and then from 1904 to 1905 as governor general. President Theodore Roosevelt named Wright secretary of war … he served until the end of the Roosevelt administration. President Taft's refusal to retain Wright in that post …
Presidential Biographies
… and control (1956) to director of the company and vice president of marketing (1961). He represented Tennessee's … to 1987. He resigned to become chairman of the Dole for President committee in 1987. He then worked as a consultant …
Presidential Biographies
… and his Daughter" (1846). During the administration of President James Madison, Paulding served as secretary of the … appointed naval agent for the port of New York (1824). President Martin Van Buren appointed him secretary of the …
Presidential Biographies
… (1957), to director of public relations (1961), to vice president and general manager of steel (1964), to executive vice president of Armco (1965), and finally to chairman of Armco's …
Presidential Biographies
… as a U.S. senator from Indiana, serving from 1917 to 1923. President Warren G. Harding appointed New postmaster general in 1923. Following Harding's death, President Calvin Coolidge reappointed New to that post, and …
Presidential Biographies
… there from 1902 to 1905 and dean from 1910-1923. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him U.S. attorney … upon the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him Chief Justice of …
Presidential Biographies
… political ambitions full time. When he was elected vice president in 1840, Tyler intended to fulfill his few duties … to assume many of the duties traditionally borne by the President's "Lady" -- directing the White House social …
Presidential Biographies
… ultimately resigned his Senate seat in 1877 to serve as President Rutherford B. Hayes’s secretary of the treasury, a … to the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1897. He was president pro tempore during the Forty-Ninth Congress and, …
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… a conversation with Representative Frank Thompson (D-NJ), President Johnson explained his administration's position … the role of Catholicism in U.S. politics - even after the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Date : May 13, 1964 …
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… When Harry S. Truman became president on April 12, 1945, he inherited the RCA … Truman tapes All available recordings for all six presidents who secretly recorded conversations are available … landing page. The collection of recordings across all six presidents includes more than 30,000 unique recordings. …
Presidential Biographies
… 1848 presidential campaign. Upon Taylor’s election as President, he tapped Ramsey to become the first territorial … He remained in the Senate from 1863 to 1879, at which time President Hayes tapped Ramsey to fill the vacancy in the War …
Presidential Biographies
… he was defeated in his bid for reelection. That same year, President Rutherford B. Hayes nominated Key as his postmaster … of Tennessee, having been appointed to the job by President Hayes. David McKendree Key died in 1900. …
Presidential Biographies
… term from 1842 to 1843. When Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency in 1850, he tapped McKennan as secretary of the …
Presidential Speeches
… Thank you all. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, members of the Supreme … operatives and affiliates to and from America. Previous Presidents have used the same constitutional authority I … us to be good stewards of tax dollars. Every year of my Presidency, we've reduced the growth of nonsecurity …
Presidential Speeches
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of the Congress, honored … you, a constitutional duty as old as our Republic itself. President Washington began this tradition in 1790 after … A hundred and twenty years ago, the greatest of all our Presidents delivered his second State of the Union message in …