History First has had a lot of love for Grover Cleveland, lately. We’ve written abouthis health scaresand how he was the onlynon-consecutive president in American history. For a president most Americans don’t remember, Cleveland had a lot of “firsts” and “onlys”. One of these is ...
but the truth is he wasn’t like John Belushi in ‘Animal House.’ He was 135 pounds, eating army rations and prescribed brandy for migraines.” Between self-medicating with the bottle during bouts of homesickness and taking liquor under doctor’s orders for a host of infirmities, Grant dev...
Due to the way the Electoral College is structured, it is possible for a candidate to win an election despite losing the popular vote. This has happened only five times in U.S. history: in 1824 when John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson, in 1876 when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samue...
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More recent presidents also have ties to the area. Biden, for example, spent part of his childhood in Garden City, Long Island. Meanwhile, other presidents have stayed at historic local hotels such as The Garden City Hotel, which has hosted figures such as John F. Kennedy, George H. W....
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Those counties are primarily Hispanic and have very close ties across the border that immigration enforcement would “inconvenience”. The funny thing is that many of these same counties want the Border Patrol to protect them from the criminal element that crosses, commits crimes and then runs ...
The state gained an additional electoral vote after the 2020 Census. This surpasses Michigan (which lost one) and ties it with Georgia for the 8th largest electoral prize in the country. ELECTORAL VOTES 16 2024 ELECTION Final Consensus Forecast ...
Rafsanjani showed political skills in promoting his pragmatic policies, favoured Iran's international engagement and renewed its ties with Europe as part of a strategy to use foreign investment and free enterprise to revive the country's war-torn economy. ...
Khamenei helped guide the country during the war in the 1980s, and developed close ties with the young Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. As the president, he had a reputation of being deeply interested in the revolutionary ideas, anti-U.S. sentiments, military development, resilient economy, and...