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President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
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...
Autopen-style signature machines have a long lineage dating to Thomas Jefferson’s use of a polygraph in the early 19th century, and modern autopens were used by multiple 20th- and 21st-century preside...
Contemporary reporting and memoir excerpts allege descriptions of a U.S. president’s genitals — most prominently claims by Stormy Daniels and reporting about Donald Trump — but available sources do no...
There was not a single overnight “party switch” where Democrats and Republicans swapped platforms; rather a long, regionally driven realignment unfolded from the 1930s through the 1960s and beyond as ...
Donald Trump is the clearest candidate to have faced the largest volume of organized protests in modern U.S. history according to compiled timelines and scholarly framing: multiple datasets and narrat...
The evidence shows multiple plausible answers depending on how one defines “dominate.” Recent sources most commonly point to the Democrats’ control of both chambers during the 117th Congress (January ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the United States Congress — a bipartisan coalition of both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate — and was signed into law by Democratic Preside...
Official U.S. investigations have concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963; the Warren Commission and later federal inquiri...
Autopen machines have been used by many U.S. presidents for decades to reproduce signatures on routine and time-sensitive documents; documented modern uses include Barack Obama signing the Patriot Act...
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...
Federal law gives the president powerful tools to federalize or deploy National Guard troops, and recent 2025 actions show administrations can and have moved Guard forces without a governor’s consent ...
Measured against the modern record-keeping of journalists and fact‑checkers, Donald J. Trump is extraordinarily well documented for making false or misleading public statements: fact‑checking projects...
President Donald Trump did not place his left hand on the Bibles held by First Lady Melania Trump while reciting the presidential oath at his January 20, 2025 inauguration, a detail captured in photos...
Counting lies by presidents depends on methodology: fact‑check tallies and journalistic counts single out Donald Trump as having the largest recorded volume—The Washington Post’s count cited in multip...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed with clear support in Congress: substantial majorities of both Democrats and Republicans voted for it, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, signed it into l...
The constitutional right that enfranchised Black men—the Fifteenth Amendment—was proposed and ratified during Reconstruction under Republican-dominated Congress and is credited to Republican lawmakers...
The U.S. government’s response combined urgent operational rescue efforts, multiple official investigations, immediate diplomatic protests to Israel, and ultimately acceptance of Israel’s explanation ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, party labels did not map neatly onto support or opposition to civil rights: , while a coalition of Northern Democrats and a significant bloc of Republicans provided essential v...