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1776 – Treaty of Watertown – a military treaty between the newly formed United States and the St. John's and Mi'kmaq First Nations of Nova Scotia, two peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy. 1778 – Treaty of Alliance – American Revolutionary War alliance with the Kingdom of France. 1778 – Treaty of Amity and Commerce – with France.
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated ( Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy ), and one resigned ( Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [9]
1981: Executive Order 12333: Strengthened management of the United States Intelligence Community. 1982: Executive Order 12372: [27] Intergovernmental Review of federal programs. 1986: Executive Order 12564: Drug-Free Federal Workplace. 1987: Executive Order 12601: President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic.
23. 12690. Providing for the Restoration of Law and Order in the Virgin Islands. September 20, 1989. 24. 12691. President's Advisory Committee on the Points of Light Initiative Foundation. September 23, 1989. 25.
Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and not about his presidency. Presidential memoir has proved to be a lasting and popular genre—every president since Calvin Coolidge has published one after ...
v. t. e. United States presidents issue executive orders (in addition to other executive actions) to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. Donald Trump signed a total of 220 executive orders from January 2017 to January 2021. As of April 2024, 71 of them ( 32%) have been ...
George W. Bush on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), 2001, delivering the first weekly radio address of the president of the United States broadcast in both English and Spanish by any president. George W. Bush. George W. Bush speaks some Spanish and has delivered speeches in the language.
List of Jim Crow law examples by state. A Black American drinks from a segregated water cooler in 1939 at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and ...