The dog that gave the title to the 1952 speech by vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon was a cocker spaniel.
In the speech, Nixon defended his financial integrity and refused to return the pet given to his children by a supporter.
It was 24th president William Howard Taft (1857-1930) who was in office when the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1909 and ratified in 1913. The federal income tax gave the federal government power to collect tax “among the several states and without regard to census”.
The head of the Unification Church married 2,075 couples in a mass wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 1, 1982.
The Persian Empire was about as large as the continental United States. Under its Achaemenid rulers, the Persian Empire encompassed not only Persia but Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and much of modern Afghanistan. The wars between Greece and Persia lasted from 499 to 479 B.C., ending in Greek victory.
The Great Compromise was the agreement reached at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787 to give each state two senators and to apportion seats in the House of Representatives on the basis of population. The agreement satisfied both the smaller, less populous states, which wanted all states to be represented equally, and the larger states,…
The Allied leaders who forced Germany to accept the Versailles Treaty of 1919 at the end of World War I were: Woodrow Wilson (U.S.) Georges Clemenceau (France) David Lloyd George (Great Britain) Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
Upton Sinclair said, “I aimed for the heart and by accident I hit the stomach instead”. He was discussing the national response to his 1906 novel The Jungle about the Chicago meatpacking industry. The book was meant to galvanize workers to socialism but instead led to the passage of the first nationwide food and drug…