Big George : How a Shy Boy Became President WashingtonThe article reviews the book "Big George: How a Shy Boy Became President Washington," by Anne Rockwell and illustrated by Matt ...
President George Washington issued the first pardon in 1795, to two farmers sentenced to die for their role in the Whiskey Rebellion, stemming from a whiskey excise tax championed by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton,SmithsonianMagazine noted. In pardoning the two men, Washington said that while...
George Washington Library of Congress America's first president was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. Some months later, painter and engraving artist Edward Savage captured Washington's likeness during the winter of 1789-90. If the image on the right looks familiar, that's because you probably ...
In 1992, U.S. President George H.W. Bushpromisedto cut military spending after the West had witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the U.S. had won a lightning military victory over Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. The resulting peace dividend was intended to cut military sp...
Somehow, over just three years, the Biden administration did to the Middle East what it did to the southern border: blew it up in the same exact manner of mindlessly undoing any policy that had previously worked with Trump’s finger prints on them. ...
George Floyd's young daughter said, "Daddy changed the world." These global protests show how right she was.