First day as newlyweds- Laura Welch and George Walker
Bush.
On November 5, 1977, 31-year-old future President George W.
Bush marries 31-year-old Laura Welch at the First United
Methodist Church in her hometown of Midland, Texas.
A pose with George’s parents, George H.W. Bush and
Barbara Bush.
Conservative icon Ronald Reagan, the former Hollywood leading
man and California governor who outwitted the American political
elite to reach the Oval Office, was elected president of the United
States on this day in history, Nov. 4, 1980.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history,
Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just
over two million popular votes. In the days preceding the vote,
political analysts and polls were so behind Dewey that on
election night, long before all the votes were counted, the
Chicago Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”(above).
Thomas Edmund Dewey
(March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971)
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