George Washington has had several vessels named after him before he died in 1799, including at least four in the 1770s and one in 1798, one in 1814 as well as an armored cruiser, a …

Jul 21, 2024 · Here is a list of the presidents and vice presidents of the United States along with their parties and dates in office.

Greatly concerned about the very real capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together, he was, and remains, the only U.S. President never to be affiliated …

Apr 3, 2015 · Richard Nixon was, and Barack Obama is, a loner with many admirers and few friends. Both preferred to speak to the electorate in heavily scripted settings. Both were …

Jul 22, 2011 · Instead of being forced to manage a slew of new liberal spending programs, as Nixon did, Obama had to cope with a revenue structure that had been decimated by …

Jul 14, 2014 · Obama said that 13 years removed from 9/11, we now face more scattered risks than al-Qaeda, with extremists in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Mali and other countries.

There are also numerous relationships by marriage which are not presented in this article. For example, Richard Nixon was the father-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower 's grandson. George …

Jan 9, 2025 · John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon exchange smiles prior to their first televised presidential candidate TV debate. Eighteen years later, another group of five presidents — …

Mar 22, 2013 · A new wave of giant antiwar protests erupted, and Nixon’s ability to take further aggressive action became infeasible. Barack Obama is, of course, no Richard Nixon — we …

Jan 13, 2009 · In a comparison that might make Democrats rather uncomfortable, Barack Obama, in certain respects, resembles Richard Nixon. Not the Nixon of Watergate, but the...