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James Monroe was inaugurated for his second term as the fifth president - this day 1821 (not Mar. 4, which was a Sunday)

Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president - this day 1849. He would die after just a year and a half in office (perhaps because of the bad White House water supply)

Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in publicly - this day 1877. He had actually been sworn in three days before, in a secret White House ceremony because there were fears of a coup against the government

Woodrow Wilson was sworn in for his second term - this day 1917. His inaugural address was described as "war like" because the United States was gearing up for conflict in World War I - America would enter the war a month later

In his first full day in office - this day 1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt took one of his first steps to combat the Great Depression: He ordered all banks closed for four days to keep fearful Americans from withdrawing all their money (more)

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Panicky Americans had been withdrawing their money for fear the banks would fail. FDR's temporary closure helped the banking system maintain liquidity, while quick reforms shored up the system. On March 9, Congress also passed the Emergency Banking Act (more)

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and the Federal Reserve created deposit insurance, thus guaranteeing the safety of customer deposits. In his first Fireside Chat, FDR told Americans: “I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”

Jimmy Carter participated in a “Dial-a-President” radio show - this day 1977. Nine million people tried to call in, and with TV newsman Walter Cronkite moderating, Carter took questions that “you would never get in a press conference.”

This day, 2020:
1) in a Fox News town hall, Donald Trump said that Barack Obama was a failure because 13,000 people died, in two years, from the swine flu
2) the day Trump left office - 10 1/2 months later, approx 405,630 Americans had perished in the #covid19 pandemic