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General George S. Patton made many blunt, controversial public and private statements after World War II ended—most notably questioning Allied denazification and expressing strong anti‑Soviet views—co...
The viral assertion that President Barack Obama spent $376 million (or similar $300–$400 million figures) to build a White House basketball court is false: reporting and fact-checks show Obama adapted...
Based on the provided materials, no single, comprehensive count of presidential invocations of the Insurrection Act appears in this dataset; the documents repeatedly cite as notable users but do not s...
Courts have historically given presidents broad deference to decide when domestic military force is needed, a posture rooted in the 1827 Martin v. Mott precedent that the authority to call out the mil...
President Obama did not demolish White House buildings to build a basketball court; he adapted an existing outdoor tennis court on the South Lawn by adding hoops and lines so it could be used for full...
The analyses collectively claim that the National Guard has been federally mobilized repeatedly for domestic crises and that those federalizations raise constitutional and state-sovereignty questions,...
House Republicans’ October 2025 report concludes many Biden-era pardons and other actions were signed with an autopen and calls them “void” absent contemporaneous documentation tying the president to ...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
Available reporting shows President Obama did not commission a standalone $376 million basketball court at the White House; the 2009 project was an adaptation of an existing 1950s tennis court with ad...
Several presidents have added recreational and entertainment features to the White House over the decades: Franklin D. Roosevelt added a swimming pool while Theodore Roosevelt created the West Wing fo...
Donald Trump’s credibility, as measured by expert rankings and public-opinion polling, registers significantly lower than most modern U.S. presidents across multiple metrics: ethical evaluations, expe...
The legal fight over whether a governor can refuse a federal order to mobilize the National Guard is active and unsettled: federal statutes give the president some unilateral authorities to federalize...
John Fogerty — frontman and primary songwriter of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) — wrote “Fortunate Son,” which CCR released in 1969 on the album Willy and the Poor Boys and issued as a single tha...
Barack Obama is identified in multiple analyses as having the highest among recent presidents, with articles citing roughly three million removals over his two terms and characterizing him as the era’...
The short answer is: yes—documented items made from human skin were produced at Buchenwald and a small bedside lampshade in several museum collections has now been forensically confirmed as human skin...
A president can, under the Insurrection Act, federalize and deploy U.S. military forces inside a state—even over the objections of state officials—but only under statutorily defined circumstances and ...
Historians’ worst-presidents lists repeatedly place James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce near the bottom; recent scholarly surveys also put Donald Trump very low, with Trump scoring 10.9...
The President can federalize a state’s National Guard through a mix of constitutional authority and federal statutes—most prominently the Insurrection Act of 1807 and various provisions of Title 10 an...
The short legal answer: there is no statute that forbids a president from using an autopen, and the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded in 2005 that a president may "sign" ...
The provided materials do contain a verifiable, quantified answer for the historical average approval rating of U.S. presidents during their first term; instead, the documents focus on contemporary po...