It is also interesting to measure the length of a president’s time in office by day. All two-term presidents served for 2,922 days apart from Washington’s 2,865. Washington took power before it was decided to have all terms begin on March 4th. This later switched to January 20th. Ho...
Other Presidents Threatened with Impeachment A significant number of U.S. presidents have faced calls for impeachment, including five of the past six Republican presidents. But few of those accusations were taken seriously by Congress. There were evenrumblingsabout impeaching the nation's first presid...
“These conflicts produced a number of one-term presidents.” Theodore Roosevelt, president from 1901-1909, ran for a third term in 1912 under the third-party Progressive Bull Moose Party when he lost to William Howard Taft as the Republican nominee. Featured When Teddy Roosevelt Was Shot in...
Trump could issue fuel waivers under the Clean Air Act to allow gasoline onto the market that would otherwise violate federal air quality standards, the analyst said. Presidents have often used such waivers whenever they needed to stretch the country's gasoline supply and keep prices in check, h...
How many delegates are there? Both the Democratic and Republican national conventions will feature thousands of delegates representing all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories. Democrats will have about 3,900 voting delegates for the first ballot at the convention, ...
Anin-depth survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and E Pluribus Unumfinds majority support for some kind of Confederate monument and statue reform, such as installing a plaque explaining the slavery-era history of the historical figure, putting the statue in a museum or des...
Hegseth will have two Washington insiders with him when he meets with lawmakers: Eric Ueland, a former Senate aide who served as Trump’s legislative affairs director, and former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, a lobbyist who represented Minnesota from 2003 to 2009. Share This is a modal window...
Most presidents fulfill one or two terms and are either defeated in re-election or retire. So what's life like for a person who's been the leader of the free world? Generally, it's good. Some presidents retire to a life outside of the public eye. Many have published their memoirs. ...
“Some presidents never get any — they last a long time,” Trump said of Supreme Court appointments. “We’ve had three. It’s blowing their minds.” Trump says he’s considering five women for the lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court. He said he plans to announce his ...
Harris, meanwhile, spent the day working to expand her own coalition. Not only did she rally in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with Republican surrogates like former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, she also engaged in an aggressive sit down with Fox News, disarming a talking...