U.S. President History
1957 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan and Attorney Gen. Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to rebels in Nicaragua.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush named Tom Ridge as the head of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The department was created by a bill that combined nearly two dozen agencies with more than 170,000 employees.
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