* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.

* 1974 – 10, 000 march in Washington, D. C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.

On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).

Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.

On 2 December 1823, US President James Monroe specifically addressed Cuba and other European colonies in his proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

* Clinton Global Initiative, a forum created by former US President Bill Clinton to discuss global problems

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

The announcement was made along with US President Bill Clinton, and U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

US − Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly beginning in March 1983, when US President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

US President Reagan also actively hindered the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of Soviet oil low and further starved the Soviet Union of foreign capital.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

* 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

* 1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U. S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.

* Several US Navy ships have been named the or the, the latter being a French translation of his penname " Poor Richard ".

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

** Richard Baxter ( US Episcopal Church )

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

That same year, while giving an interview to US journalist Richard Stengel, de Klerk was asked whether South Africa had turned out the way he envisioned it back in 1990.

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

After US President Richard Nixon made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place between the two countries.

* 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U. S. military commanders.

* Richard Kane in the 1985 US / Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40, 000 more troops before Christmas

* 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion ".

* 1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

* He is also related to the Confederate Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Nelson Pendelton Lee, and Richard L. Page ; and to US Admiral Samuel P. Lee.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.