Today is Saturday, November 7, 2009 Today in U.S. President History 1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. 1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first person to win a fourth term as president. 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 1972 - U.S. President Nixon was reelected. 1973 - The U.S. Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional approval. 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate. U.S. President Quotes I am not a crook. - Richard M. Nixon, 1973

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