Thread by @WestWingReport

Big day on the history front. We'll start in 1789, when President Washington signed the Judiciary Act—creating the Federal Court system. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but the authority to create lower federal courts was left to Congress /1

The Judiciary Act established not only the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system, but also created the position of attorney general.

"Black Friday" stained the reputation of Ulysses S. Grant - thanks to his brother-in-law, who teamed up with two men to corner the gold market. They forced prices up, but when the president found out, he ordered the Treasury to sell the government's gold - causing prices to crash

The Grant administration was tainted by numerous scandals - though President Grant himself was an honest man

On This Day, 1955: In Denver, Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack, raising doubts about his reelection prospects. Many White House staffers and reporters moved to Colorado to be near him. In February 1956, doctors said that Ike had recovered; he won reelection in a landslide

A major chapter in the civil rights movement: On This Day in 1957, President Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce school desegregation /1

Arkansas officials—including Gov. Orville Faubus—had resisted desegregation, as ordered in the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling In 1954. In addition to sending in U.S. troops, Eisenhower federalized the entire 10,000 man Arkansas National Guard /2

Eisenhower, addressing the American people from the Oval Office, denounced what he called “the leadership of demagogic extremists” in Arkansas. Watch:
c-span.org/video/?434366-…

On This Day, 1964: Ten months after the assassination of President Kennedy, a blue-ribbon panel appointed by President Johnson to investigate the murder presented its findings. /1

The 889-page report by the Warren Commission, named for Chief Justice Earl Warren, determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy and wounding Texas Gov. John Connally /2

The Warren Report has been controversial for decades, but to this day, no verfiable evidence has ever emerged to undercut its central conclusion: that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy. Here: Parkland Hospital's Trauma One as it looked in Nov. 1963