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Slavery came one step closer to being abolished when the House, on this day in 1865, passed the 13th Amendment. The Senate had already done so. Three-quarters of the states soon ratified it, and by December - eight months after Lincoln's murder - it was added to the Constitution
The Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union was on when Harry Truman - on this day in 1950 - vowed to build the hydrogen bomb. The announcement came five months after the Soviets ended America's nuclear monopoly by testing their first bomb
This Day, 1968: Five years after saying he was done with politics, Richard Nixon, with this open letter to the citizens of New Hampshire, said he was running for President. His victory, ten chaotic months later, capped the most incredible political comeback in American history
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President Ford turned this Feb. 11, 1935 offer from the Green Bay Packers down, and another from the Lions. He joked that if he had played in the NFL, he might have become famous. People incorrectly think he was a klutz; in fact, Ford was arguably the most athletic of presidents
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One ominous difference between the destructive and anti-American McCarthy era and the present: McCarthy was a mere senator. At first terrified of him, the Washington establishment soon tired of his rantings and delusion; he was censured and died humiliated and alone at age 48
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A war in Vietnam? “I cannot conceive of a greater tragedy for America than to get heavily involved now in an all-out war,” said President Eisenhower - on this day in 1954. The five-star General's wisdom would sadly be lost on future presidents
A major flaw in the Constitution was fixed - on this day in 1967 - with the ratification of the 25th Amendment. After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, VP Lyndon Johnson became president—but no one replaced Johnson as VP. For 14 months, the U.S. had no vice president /1
The 25th amendment said: “Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.” The amendment would quickly come in handy /2
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In speeches and lectures (including seven presidential libraries), I'm ofteh asked to tell a story to illustrate just how @RealDonaldtrump differs from his predecessors. One story from October 1962 comes to mind
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Some 100 million Americans—then more than half the population—would have been killed. And it came very close to happening. That’s the estimate often given about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the dangerous showdown that nearly led to nuclear war with the Soviet Union in 1962
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The Kennedy administration had the goods on the Soviets. U.S. spy planes had reconnaissance photos of missile sites in Cuba—just 90 miles from Florida—their nuclear tipped missiles nearly ready to be fired.
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