On This Day, 1894: Grover Cleveland pardoned bigamists, adulterers and polygamists. The move was directed at Mormons who had previously engaged in such activity—considered illegal by the U.S. government 
Headlines This Day, 1957. President Eisehower's respomse to efforts by officials in Arkansas to maintain segregation
Cold War thaw: on this day in 1959, Dwight Eisenhower welcomed the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. The president and Nikita Khrushchev met for two days at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland /1
Eisenhower snd Khrushchev discussed the status of Germany, including a divided Berlin, and levels of armaments. But hopes for warmer ties between Washington and Moscow would soon collapse, after the downing of an American spy plane in Soviet airspace
