On January 13, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
the first African American cabinet member, making Robert C.
Weaver head of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). The agency that develops and
implements national housing policy and enforces fair
housing laws.
 

In keeping with his vision for a Great Society, Johnson
sought to improve race relations and eliminate urban
blight.

As many of the country’s African Americans lived in run-
down inner-city areas, appointing Weaver was an attempt
to show his African American constituency that he meant
business on both counts.

SANDY KOZEL

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th president of the United States, 
was born on January 9, 1913 in California.

The son of Quaker parents, Nixon grew up in the southern
California city of Yorba Linda.

Nixon then joined the Navy and served during World War II
as a lieutenant commander in the Pacific theater. After the
war, he gravitated toward Republican politics, joining the
post-war anti-communist crusade.

On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered
the first State of the Union address to the assembled Congress
in New York City.

Washington began by congratulating North Carolina’s recent
decision to join the federal republic.

North Carolina had rejected the Constitution in July 1788
because it lacked a bill of rights. Under the terms of the
Constitution, the new government acceded to power after
only 11 of the 13 states accepted the document.

By the time North Carolina ratified in November 1789, the
first Congress had met, written the Bill of Rights and
dispatched them for review by the states.

         
SANDY KOZEL