(FOX NEWS) – An intimate testament to love and to home
written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was
sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday.

A "friendship album" compiled by 19-year-old bride-to-be
Ellen Maria Brackett of Quincy, Massachusetts.

Paintings of former President John Adams, right, and his
wife Abigail Adams, are displayed at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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

On June 28, 1972, President Nixon (above) announced that no
more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer
for such duty. He also announced that a force of 10,000 troops
would be withdrawn by September 1, which would leave a
total of 39,000 in Vietnam.

  
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower 
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

Future president Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was appointed commanding general of the European Theater on this day in
history, June 25, 1942.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)

On this day in history, June 22, 1944, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, an act of legislation designed
to compensate returning members of the armed services
for their service and efforts in World War II.

The legislation is officially known as the Servicemen’s
Readjustment Act of 1944. (History.com)

Sonora founded Father’s Day in Spokane, Washington, in 
1910. She was inspired by the example of her devoted
dad, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first
presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating
the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.

Six years later, the day was made a permanent national
holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law
in 1972.

William Jackson Smart, the inspiration for Father’s Day.