WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal civil rights investigation into the death of George Floyd is ongoing, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement, after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of murdering Floyd. (Repo...
The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fal...
As one of the Founding Fathers, George Washington holds a special place in American history. During his first term as the first president of the United ...
Senate, Senator Prescott Bush pulled James Bertron aside at a Washington fundraiser and asked him, “Jimmy, when are you going to get George involved?”“Senator, I’m trying,” Bertron replied. “We’re all trying.” When first offered the Harris County party chairman’s job, Bush ...
7. While I was not in a position of influence, ultimately I have concluded that we went to war because hundreds or thousands of people in or around Washington who did know or should have known better went along with it anyway. And in doing so we made collectively as a country a most ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday paid tribute to Cardinal George Pell, who spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia before his child sex convictions were overturned, praising his diligence in reforming the Vatican’s finances
Washington, George: inaugural addressGeorge Washington's First Inaugural Address, delivered at Federal Hall, New York City, April 30, 1789.(more) 2 of 2 General Washington buttonButton bearing George Washington's portrait, produced after his inauguration, c. 1789.(more) Following the ratification ...