On This Date In POTUS History
- 1859 John Brown led raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia to initiate an armed slave revolt.
- 1901 Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington and his family to dine at the White House.
- 1909 William H. Taft and Porfirio Díaz held a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and only narrowly escaped assassination.
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis began when Kennedy shown photos of missile bases under construction.
POTUS Quote
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
