In 1946, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981. This executive order abolished (ended) racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and desegregated the troops.

In July of 1969, President Richard Nixon flew to the USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean to welcome back the crew of Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 mission sent the first man to the moon, Neil Armstrong.

After winning the Presidency in 2016, Donald Trump began to pick a number of people to serve in his cabinet. For the Attorney General he picked Senator Jeff Sessions and for the Secretary of State he chose former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.

President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals.

By August 1945, WWII in Europe had ended, but the war against Japan was still going on. Convinced a land invasion of Japan might result in the death of one million U.S. men, President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the newly created Atomic Bomb first on Hiroshima, Japan and then on Nagasaki, Japan. Each bomb would kill over 100,000, however Japan would surrender and WWII was over.

In his first 100 days in office, President Roosevelt introduced many pieces of legislation aimed at bringing the United States out of the Great Depression. These laws fell into three categories relief, reform, and recover.

After Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Primary, President Barack Obama campaigned extensively for her in key battleground states.

In 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States by Ronald Reagan. After her Senate confirmation, she became the first female to serve on our nation’s highest court

In order to stimulate the economy, President George W. Bush introduced a series of tax cuts for many Americans, but specifically for many of our highest earners in hopes that they would expand businesses and hire more workers.

Despite the petition from over 1,000 economists, President Hoover did not veto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff. Although this tariff made foreign made goods more expensive, which encouraged Americans to buy American. However, it encouraged many other countries to pass their own tariffs, and essentially crippled global trade.

After serving eight years as President of the United States, President Ronald Reagan gave his full endorsement and campaigned for his Vice President George H.W. Bush to become the next President of the United States. Bush would win the presidency in 1988.

In 2016, President Obama awarded many influential Americans with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Included in this list was Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Michael Jordan.

Each November,the President of the United States lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.

Barack Obama introduced his plan for health care reform to a joint session of Congress in February of 2009, just under a month after taking the Oath of Office. This plan, which has since been dubbed “Obamacare” was eventually signed into law by President Obama in 2010 as the Patient Protection and Affordable Coverage Act.

President Jimmy Carter invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David, to negotiate a peace treaty between their nations.

After President Richard Nixon resigned, his Vice President Gerald Ford became President. After weeks of consistent media coverage about potential criminal charges being filed against Nixon, Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon to put “this national nightmare behind us.”

After continual impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy by Great Britain, President James Madison asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812.