On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a
bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, decision regarding the institution of slavery in America.
Alice Sanger (1864 – 1941)
President Benjamin Harrison welcomes Alice Sanger as the first
female White House staffer on January 2, 1890.
President Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901)
Truman defies the Chicago Tribune and wins in 1948.
On December 26, 1972, former President Harry S. Truman
was admitted to Kansas City’s Research Hospital and
Medical Center with pneumonia. He developed multiple
organ failure, fell into a coma, and died.
Then-President Richard Nixon called Truman a man of
“forthrightness and integrity” who had a deep respect
for the office he held and for the people he served, and
who “supported and wisely counseled each of his
successors.”
Official portrait of President Truman by Greta Kempton(1945)
On December 16, 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives’
Committee on the Judiciary released a 265-page report
recommending the impeachment of President Bill Clinton
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
The subsequent impeachment proceedings were the culmination
of a slew of specious scandals involving the president and first
lady Hillary Clinton. The Clintons were suspected of arranging
improper real-estate deals, fundraising violations and cronyism
in involving the firing of White House travel agents. Added to the
mix were stories of Clinton’s extra-marital affairs and a sexual harassment claim filed against him.
House floor debates articles of impeachment.
(FOX NEWS) – Retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,
the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died.
The high court said O’Connor died Friday morning in Phoenix
of complications related to advanced dementia, probably
Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.
O’Connor is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger as
her husband John O’Connor looks on.
