President of the USA

  • Executive Order 9066

    Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a…

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  • Some people think that 2016 must have been the most bizarre year in US politics.But they’d be wrong. 175 years ago 1841 was the year where there were 3 serving us Presidents. Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American politician who served as the eighth President of the United…

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  • On this day 78 years ago and the previous day several letters via telegram were going back and fort between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. President Roosevelt appealed to Hitler for peace. Below are the texts of the letters and the response.   Telegram BERLIN, September 27, 1938 To His Excellency the President of…

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