In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts was nominated for the presidency by the
Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named
Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the
convention.

Four months later, on November 8, JFK won 49.7 percent
of the popular vote in one of the closest presidential
elections in U.S. history, surpassing by a fraction the
49.6 percent received by Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, a Republican.

John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

(FOX NEWS) – The newly decommissioned Marine One helicopter
found a new home with the U.S. Secret Service.

Agents will train on same copter that transported every president
for the last 50 years.

On July 9, 1850, after only 16 months in office, President
Zachary Taylor (65) died after a brief illness. The exact
cause of his death is still disputed by some historians.

His vice president, Millard Fillmore, was sworn in as the new
president the next day.

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874

A battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division left Saigon in the
initial withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 814 soldiers were the
first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage
of the U.S. disengagement from the Vietnam War.

There would be 14 more increments in the withdrawal, but
the last U.S. troops did not leave until after the Paris Peace
Accords were signed in January 1973.

On July 6, 1946, George Walker Bush—the son of 41st
President George Herbert Walker Bush, was born in New
Haven, Connecticut.George W. Bush went on to become
the 43rd U.S. president.

He left office in January, 2009, after the election of Barack
Obama.