In then old days, presidents often held news conferences in the State Dept. auditorium. Here's President Kennedy doing so - on this day in in 1962 
The long, hot summer of 1967: a five-day race riot began in Detroit. It took some 7,000 U.S. troops to restore order and when it was over, 43 people were killed, 342 injured and nearly 1,400 buildings burned. Here: President Johnson confers w/advisors (SecDef McNamara on right)
On This Day. 1973: Richard Nixon refused to release White House tape recordings related to the Watergate investigation. The Senate Watergate committee and special prosecutor Archibald Cox had demanded that the president do. But Nixon refused, claiming executive privilege /1
The battle over the Watergate tapes would go on for another year, before the Supreme Court ruled, in a unanimous verdict, against Nixon. He would resign two weeks later - in August, 1974
