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)

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On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy (above) and her sister, Lauren Bessette,
died when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., was born on November 25,
1960, just a few weeks after his father and namesake was
elected the 35th president of the United States.

President John F. Kennedy and son
JFK Jr.(‘John John’)