President Books and Videos


Today is Saturday, February 4, 2012

Today in
U.S. President History

1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

1792 - George Washington repeated the feat of being the only president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College.

1932 - The first Winter Olympics opened in the United States at Lake Placid, NY. The games were opened by New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1945 - During World War II, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat.

1985 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan's defense budget called for a tripling of the expenditure on the "Star Wars" research program.


Like this topic here!


U.S. President Quotes

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual execise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other."
- Thomas Jefferson