President Reagan with US Attorney General William French Smith making a statement to the press regarding the air
traffic controllers strike from the Rose Garden. White
House Photo/Ronald Reagan Library

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan began firing
11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order
for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded
as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for
months.

 
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Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
(August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Singer Tony Bennet received many accolades,
including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime
Achievement Award, and two Primetime
Emmy Awards. Bennett was named an NEA
Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree
and founded the Frank Sinatra School of the
Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold
more than 50 million records worldwide and
earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

On July 30, 1956, two years after pushing to have the phrase
“under God” inserted into the pledge of allegiance, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law officially declaring “In
God We Trust” to be the nation’s official motto.

The law, P.L. 84-140, also mandated that the phrase be printed
on all American paper currency. The phrase had been placed
on U.S. coins since the Civil War when, according to the
historical association of the United States Treasury, religious
sentiment reached a peak. Eisenhower’s treasury secretary, 
George Humphrey, had suggested adding the phrase to
paper currency as well.

Two years before making ‘In God We Trust’ the national
motto, President Eisenhower (center) introduced a stamp
carrying the slogan (below).

The Judiciary Committee Impeachment Panel gathered to 
hear evidence in the Watergate affair, eventually leading 
to the impeachment of President Nixon. From left to right,
Donohue, Rodino and Hutchinson.

On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended
America’s 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, be impeached and
removed from office.

The impeachment proceedings resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration that came to be
collectively known as Watergate.

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