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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...
repeatedly from the 19th century to today: and his circle explored Greenland after purchase; ’s diplomats proposed a land-exchange in the early 20th century; made a formal postwar bid in 1946; and pla...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
The Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The has been used sporadically across —beginning in the early republic and reappearing in reconstruction, labor disputes, civil‑rights enforcement and urban unrest—with presidents from through invokin...
has been a narrowly used but potent presidential tool in the 20th and 21st centuries: presidents most notably invoked it during the to enforce federal court orders, deployed it in a handful of large d...
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...
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...