Former President William Howard Taft (above) dedicated the
Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall on May 30, 1922.

At the time, Taft was serving as chief justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court. A crowd gathered on the Mall to witness
the ceremony.

The neoclassical monument honors 16th U.S. president 
Abraham Lincoln. Congress authorized construction of
a monument to Lincoln on the Capitol grounds in 1867
(two years after his assassination), but it took until 1911
for funding to be approved; construction was then
slowed due to World War I.

     
       
        
        
        
        
        
       
William Howard Taft (left) President Warren G. Harding (center) and Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln. 
      
 

One of America’s best-loved presidents, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, was born into a politically and socially prominent
family in  Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was the first
American president to be born and then serve in the 20th
century.

The impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the
United States, was held in the U.S. Senate and concluded with
acquittal on three of eleven charges before adjourning without
a verdict on the remaining charges. It was the first impeachment
trial of a U.S. president and was the sixth federal impeachment
trial in U.S. history. The trial began March 5, 1868, and adjourned
on May 26.

Andrew Johnson (1808 – 1875) 

Calvin Coolidge (1872 – 1933)

On May 26, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge (above) signed
into law the Immigration Act of 1924, the most stringent U.S.   
immigration policy up to that time in the nation’s history.

The new law—also known as the Johnson-Reed Immigration
Act, reflected the desire of Americans to isolate themselves 
from the world after fighting World War I in Europe, which
exacerbated growing fears of the spread of communist ideas. 

It also reflected the pervasiveness of racial discrimination in
American society at the time. Many Americans saw the huge 
influx of largely unskilled, uneducated immigrants during the 
early 1900s as causing unfair competition for jobs and land. 

President Joe Biden addressed the Class of 2024 at the West Point commencement exercises on May 25 in West Point, New York. The ceremony took place at Michie Stadium and involved around 1,000 cadets who graduated and were commissioned into the Army as second lieutenants.

Biden repeated a story about how he was ‘appointed’ tot he U.S. Naval Academy and wanted to play football —but his path was blocked by future NFL great Roger Staubach.

FACT CHECK: Biden attended the University of Delaware and as an exceptional student who graduated in 1965, reportedly playing football briefly on the 1961 freshman team but did not finish the season.

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