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President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
Autopens have been used by U.S. presidents for decades — reportedly beginning as early as Dwight Eisenhower’s term, publicly acknowledged under Gerald Ford, and formally cleared by the Justice Departm...
The Insurrection Act, a set of statutes dating to the early republic, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize federal military intervention on American soil; those invocatio...
Barack Obama’s administration deported roughly over two terms, a figure that made him widely labeled the “deporter-in-chief,” but those totals require context about methodology, historical comparisons...
The available analyses show there is , and recent coverage centers on the president’s power to federalize National Guard forces under 10 U.S.C. §12406 rather than any arrest power . Courts have recent...
The claim that a legal ban on communists running for American office was formally “lifted” is misleading: key post‑1950s statutes like the Communist Control Act of 1954 remain on the books but have be...
Two presidents are routinely identified in the historical record as having put the United States under forms of martial rule: Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War (beginning in 1861) and Franklin D. R...
The historical record shows the federal government has used armed forces and federalized troops to enforce school desegregation, most famously in Little Rock in 1957 and in Alabama in the 1960s; those...
Genealogical researchers argue that most U.S. presidents trace one or more lines back to British or other European royal and noble ancestors; Gary Boyd Roberts’ book Ancestors of American Presidents i...
Past U.S. presidents have invoked forms of martial authority and emergency powers in varied contexts—war, insurrection, labor unrest, civil-rights enforcement, and wartime national security—with mixed...
Counting which U.S. president “played the most golf while in office” depends on how you measure outings — rounds played, days spent at golf properties, or estimated rounds at White House courses — and...
Barack Obama played during his eight years as president, averaging about , a tally that is and stands lower than the famously golf-heavy presidencies of Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower but higher...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered federal troops and federalized the Arkansas National Guard in September 1957 to enforce a federal court order desegregating Little Rock Central High School; the ...
The 50‑star U.S. flag was adopted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Executive Order 10834 on August 21, 1959, after statehood for Hawaii made a 50‑star arrangement necessary . Popular accounts cred...
Gallup’s historical presidential approval database shows Dwight D. Eisenhower with the highest sustained average approval among modern presidents tracked by Gallup, with peak ratings and consistently ...
Counting presidential golf is imprecise but consistent patterns appear: Dwight D. Eisenhower and Woodrow Wilson are repeatedly cited as among the most frequent presidential golfers (Eisenhower reporte...
The Insurrection Act (now codified at 10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255) is a statutory exception to Posse Comitatus that lets a president federalize the militia or use the armed forces domestically to suppress “i...
President Barack Obama did not build a standalone indoor White House basketball arena; rather, in 2009 he had the existing South Lawn tennis court adapted so it could serve for both tennis and full-co...
Donald Trump spent than recent presidents such as Barack Obama, with multiple counts showing Trump logged far more golf-course days and rounds; his rounds also disproportionately involved properties o...
Several U.S. presidents were avid golfers: Dwight D. Eisenhower is reported to have played “more than 800 rounds” during his two terms , Woodrow Wilson “over 1,000 rounds” in eight years , Barack Obam...