American Presidents

• Abraham Lincoln: Omens, plots and the shocking death of the 16th president



• Dwight Eisenhower: Supreme Allied Commander in Europe before he became president



• Eisenhower and School Desegregation: The President sent 1,200 Arkansas National Guard to Little Rock, thereby allowing nine black students to attend Central High School in 1957



• Election Politics in the 19th Century: Posters made the points in the days before television



• FDR's Court-Packing Plan: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, attempting to influence decisions rendered by the United States Supreme Court, tried to "pack the court" with FDR-supporting justices



• Franklin Roosevelt - Last Address to Congress: President Roosevelt was a sick man after he returned from the Yalta Conference. In his last address to Congress - on March 1, 1945 - he also publicly acknowledged his crippling case of polio. Click on "result" in the last paragraph.



• George Washington: The only unanimously elected President



• Harry Truman: Approves Dropping the Atomic Bomb



• James Garfield: After serving just a few months as the 20th president, Garfield was shot by a deranged office seeker



• JFK and his Family: Happiness before Dallas



• JFK's Finest Hour: Standing firm against the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis



• John F. Kennedy: Assassination in Dallas



• John Quincy Adams: After his years as President, he successfully argued (in the United States Supreme Court) for the release of the Amistad defendants



• Lyndon Baines Johnson: Decides to "Go Big" in Vietnam and becomes a casualty of that war



• Political Cartoons of American Presidents: Pictures are better than words



• Theodore R. Roosevelt, Jr.: One of the faces on Mount Rushmore is of America's youngest president



• Thomas Jefferson: Drafter of the Declaration of Independence



• William McKinley: Assassination of a much-loved President at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo

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