George Washington, the American revolutionary leader and
first president of the United States, died at his estate in
Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was 67 years old.
Modern medical authors largely have concluded that the
former president likely died from extensive bloodletting
which may have caused hypovolemic shock.
George Washington’s Death Mask.
President Abraham Lincoln announced a grant of amnesty for
Emilie Todd Helm, his wife Mary Lincoln’s half sister and the
widow of a Confederate general.
The pardon was one of the first under Lincoln’s Proclamation
of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which he had announced less
than a week before.
The plan, the president’s blueprint for the reintegration of the
South into the Union, allowed for former Confederates to be
granted amnesty if they took an oath to the United States.
The option was open to all but the highest officials of the
Confederacy. Lincoln’s sister-in-law received the pardon,
but never took the required oath.
Emilie Todd Helm (1836 – 1930)
White House National Security Communications Advisor
John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White
House on Dec. 12, 2024.
New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul Kanitra described
the government’s handling of the weekslong drone
sightings across the northeast as "infuriating."
(Doug Hood/Asbury Park Press)
ED DONAHUE
At a news conference in 1969, President Richard Nixon said
the Vietnam War is coming to a “conclusion as a result of
the plan that we have instituted.”
Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that
the United States would be following a new program he termed “Vietnamization.”
Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces
would be built up so they could assume more responsibility
for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more
capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and
returned to the United States.
In his speech, Nixon pointed out that he had already ordered
the withdrawal of 60,000 U.S. troops.
