From left: British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian
Council President Vittorio Orlando, French Council
President Georges Clemenceau and President
Woodrow Wilson attending the opening day of
the Conference for Peace in Paris.

The day after British Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s
arrival in Paris, he meets with representatives from the other
Big Four nations—Prime Ministers Georges Clemenceau of
France and Vittorio Orlando of Italy and President Woodrow
Wilson of the United States—at the French Foreign Ministry
on the Quai d’Orsay, for the first of what will be more than
100 meetings.

Clemenceau (left) and President Wilson (center).

Farewell Address to the Nation | Ronald Reagan (reaganlibrary.gov)

On this day in 1989, after eight years as president of the United
States, Ronald Reagan gave his farewell address to the American
people. In his speech, President Reagan spoke with particular enthusiasm about the foreign policy achievements of his
administration.

In his speech, Reagan declared that America “rediscovered” its commitment to world freedom in the 1980s. The United States
was “respected again in the world and looked to for leadership.”

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

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

   
Andrew Jackson Jr (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845)

On January 8, 1835, President Andrew Jackson achieved his
goal of entirely paying off the United States’ national debt. It
was the only time in U.S. history that the national debt stood
at zero, and it precipitated one of the worst financial crises in
American history.

‘Congress set January 7, 1789 as the date by which states were
required to choose electors for the country’s first-ever presidential election. A month later, on February 4, George Washington was
elected president by state electors and sworn into office on April
30, 1789.

Federal Hall in New York City