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Today in
U.S. President History

1875 - The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, died.

1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.

1991 - U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.




U.S. President Quotes

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. . . . As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln Annual message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862

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