On This Date In POTUS History
- 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower born.
- 1912 Former president Theodore Roosevelt shot before he was to give a speech for his third-term campaign. Wounded, he went on to deliver the speech.
- 1912 Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Milwaukee.
- 1962 U-2 flight captured photographic evidence of missiles in Cuba leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1982 Ronald Reagan proclaimed a War on Drugs
POTUS Quote
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
