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A searchable, full photographic record of the White House “Presidential Walk of Fame” plaques is available through multiple major news photo galleries — notably Reuters’ on‑site photo set and wire pho...
The legal framework for foreign gifts to U.S. presidents centers on the , which bar acceptance of payments or benefits from foreign states without Congressional consent, but everyday federal gift rule...
Available reporting shows no comprehensive, single-source tally comparing how much taxpayer money President Trump has spent on legal defense versus every president since Nixon; most coverage instead d...
President Biden used clemency extensively in late 2024 and the final minutes of his presidency: on Dec. 12, 2024 he pardoned 39 people and commuted the sentences of roughly 1,499 people in a single-da...
Available reporting identifies at least a half‑dozen U.S. presidents with documented Mayflower ancestry — most commonly cited are John Adams (and his son John Quincy Adams), Zachary Taylor, Franklin D...
Several major criminal cases against Donald Trump were dismissed or dropped after events between 2024 and 2025: federal indictments tied to the 2020 election and classified documents were effectively ...
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...
Several presidents before Barack Obama altered the White House’s recreational footprint — from billiard rooms and bowling lanes to a therapeutic indoor pool and outdoor courts — reflecting changing pe...
The 25th Amendment has been formally used multiple times since its 1967 ratification: Section 2 (to fill a vice‑presidential vacancy) was used twice in 1973–74 when Nixon and then Ford nominated Geral...
The U.S. Constitution vests the power to "declare war" exclusively in Congress, while the President serves as commander in chief — a division that leaves room for dispute about who can start hostiliti...
The core claim — that the White House has an indoor basketball court built in 2009 by President Barack Obama — is by multiple summaries that say Obama adapted a tennis court for basketball in 2009, bu...
The 1969 Vietnam draft lottery assigned every calendar birthdate (366 days) a lottery number from 1–366 by drawing blue plastic capsules from a large glass container on December 1, 1969; lower numbers...
The Selective Service held the first Vietnam-era draft lottery on December 1, 1969, to assign a random “order of call” for men born January 1, 1944–December 31, 1950 by drawing 366 birth-date capsules...
Contemporary sources in the packet describe the history and controversy around the presidential pardon power and highlight notable, high-profile uses, but they do provide a clear, comprehensive list o...
The Twenty‑Second Amendment bars anyone from being elected President more than twice but does not unambiguously say that a twice‑elected former president cannot later serve as President by succession ...
A former president can invoke executive privilege, but courts and precedent limit that claim and typically decide disputes — Congress cannot be blocked automatically. Courts have treated presidential ...
Donald Trump’s presidency is widely described in recent reporting and watchdog work as marked by frequent, visible conflicts of interest, alleged profiteering, and institutional rollbacks — earning cl...
Donald Trump’s volume of false and misleading statements during and after his presidency is documented as far higher than that of recent presidents, with multiple tracking projects counting thousands ...
The short answer is: a President generally does not have free rein to refuse to spend money that Congress has lawfully appropriated; , and longstanding law and precedent restrict unilateral presidenti...
A “global financial (or currency) reset” is a broad label for systemic changes in international monetary arrangements — from coordinated debt restructurings and reserve-asset shifts to formal ends of ...