- FDR 1938 Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/message-congress-curbing-monopolies 1 comment economy
- On this day (April 16, 1973) 50 years ago, a presidential proclamation was given to recognize the achievements of Jim Thorpe, considered to be the greatest American athlete of the first half of the 20th century. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-4209-jim-thorpe-day 66 comments sports
- Executive Order 14067—Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets | The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14067-ensuring-responsible-development-digital-assets 3 comments privacy
- Nature and history of money, property rights, fraud and the potential of crypto: The context https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-outlining-new-economic-policy-the-challenge-peace#axzz1UZnES7PMon 10 comments ethereum
- Obama has issued less executive orders per year than any president since Grover Cleveland, and has actually decreased the number in his second term. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php 7 comments politics
- Ronald Reagan's Speech About Hockey http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=41988 29 comments hockey
- Ronald Reagan in 1988: "Ratification of the Convention will clearly express the United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice. Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution." http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=35858 3 comments history
- Just a quick tally of executive orders: Obama: 193, W. Bush: 293, Clinton: 364, Reagan: 383. Interesting given the talk of dictatorship on the right. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php?l=eng 10 comments politics
- Ronald Reagan Statement on United States Immigration and Refugee Policy, July, 1981. Among his 8 points: "Illegal immigrants ... have become productive members of our society and ... work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status." http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44128 11 comments politics
- Just to make sure everyone here knows that John Boehner and the rest of the Republican party is full of shit when they say that they are going to sue the President over his use of Executive Orders. Here is a chart of all Presidential Executive orders in American history sorted by President. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php 8 comments politics
- A Tally of Executive Orders shows that Obama has given as many or less executive orders as any president since Benjamin Harrison. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php 9 comments politics
- Nixon's layout of what the EPA would be http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2575&st=environmental+protection+agency&st1 7 comments history
- Can't keep track of all these newspaper endorsements? Here's a webpage that will do it for you! http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/2012_newspaper_endorsements.php 5 comments politics
- From the 1960 Republican platform: We condemn bigotry, smear and other unfair tactics in political campaigns. We favor realistic and effective safeguards against diverting non-political funds to partisan political purposes. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25839 6 comments politics
- Strickland and Villaraigosa just caved on keeping religion out of the party platform. This is disappointing. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=78283 13 comments politics
- GOP Party Platform of 1956: "We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people." http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838 764 comments politics
- Harry Truman had the GOP pegged way back in 1948 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12962#axzz1vdwiol7c 5 comments politics
- TIL that in 1942, FDR, in order issued Executive Order 9250 effectively limiting salaries to $25,000 ($331,000 in 2010) by making all money after taxed at 100%. Congress promptly overturned it. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16171#axzz1pm6284r7 89 comments politics
- If You Want a Job, You've got to Give Obama a HUGE Democratic HOUSE! -- Just Like FDR. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/presidential_elections_seats.php 8 comments politics
- "I've asked Congress to provide our military $39 billion. This team of strong leaders, Don Rumsfeld, General Myers, and General Pace, knows that our Nation must think differently and we will think differently to protect and defend America's interests in the world." George W. Bush, August 24, 2001. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=64316#axzz1kb1ywxig 4 comments politics
- Recently, a Man was thrown down his own stairs and held at gunpoint by a swat team for not having his Wi-Fi Security hooked up correctly. Read this Signing Statement by President Bush, which essentially declares those Federal Agents to have committed a Terrorist Act against U.S. Interests. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=64595#axzz1kaykskuf 7 comments politics
- Republican Party Platform of 1956: The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838 41 comments politics
- "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service." - Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15445 29 comments politics
- The Reagan quote was real - it was about the Nicaraguan death squads, not the Taliban. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38274 36 comments politics
- Jimmy Carter's message to the aliens on the Voyager spacecraft: "We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization." http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7890 99 comments space
- Jimmy Carter's message to the aliens on the Voyager spacecraft: "We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization." Huh. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7890 5 comments politics
- In 1956, I would have been proud to have been a Republican. What classy ideals! http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838 36 comments politics
- For a comparison to the recently released Augustine Commission report, here's Nixon's statements based on the conclusions of the 1969 Space Task Group. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2903 28 comments space
- Jimmy Carter: Eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=7908&potrzebie=666 2 comments reddit.com
- I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. - Jimmy Carter, 1977 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=7908 37 comments politics
- Jimmy Carter: "I support amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana." http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=7908 64 comments reddit.com
- The Republican Party Platform of 1872: " We are opposed to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies", "It disapproves of the resort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose of removing evils", "[Import taxes] should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to labor", and "Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the government are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing". http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatforms.php?platindex=r1872 53 comments politics
Linking pages
- After 50 days as president, Biden still hasn’t given a news conference. Critics and allies wonder why. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/press-conferences-biden-administration/2021/03/12/332285e6-81e3-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html 500 comments
- White House sets record for longest span with no press briefings - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/politics/white-house-sets-record-longest-span-press-briefings/story?id=60472803 231 comments
- White House sets record for longest span with no press briefings - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/politics/white-house-sets-record-longest-span-press-briefings/story?amp%3Bcid=social_twitter_abcnp&id=60472803 134 comments
- Trump's record on press conferences breaks 64 years of precedent http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/07/media/president-trump-press-conferences/index.html?sr=twcnn080717president-trump-press-conferences1039amstory 131 comments
- If we didn’t know better, we’d think Sarah Huckabee Sanders wasn’t interested in holding press briefings - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/10/if-we-didnt-know-better-wed-think-sarah-huckabee-sanders-wasnt-interested-in-holding-press-briefings/ 54 comments
- Trump's toxic tweets set a dangerous and unpresidential precedent https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/01/16/trump-toxic-tweets-set-dangerous-unpresidential-precedent-column/4469129002/ 46 comments
- Biden Holds Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/politics/biden-public-appearances-media.html 43 comments
- Was Trump First US President To Lose Popular Vote, Get Impeached, Then Lose Reelection? | Snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-venn-diagram/ 40 comments
- Biden takes a step correlated to winning a second term: Reinstating the presidential weekly address - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/08/biden-takes-step-correlated-winning-second-term-reinstating-presidential-weekly-address/ 12 comments
- The White House has transitioned from daily press briefings to monthly press beratings - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/19/white-house-has-transitioned-daily-press-briefings-monthly-press-beratings/ 11 comments
- Obama is right. The Floyd protests will change public policy. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/09/obama-is-right-floyd-protests-will-change-public-policy/ 8 comments
- Propaganda bellica e immagine del nemico: l’italiano nel cinema americano, 1941-1945 – Storia e Futuro http://storiaefuturo.eu/propaganda-bellica-e-immagine-del-nemico-litaliano-nel-cinema-americano-1941-1945/ 7 comments
- White House reporters clamor for press conference as Biden waits longer than predecessors | CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/03/media/biden-press-conference-reliable-sources/index.html 4 comments
- How America Fails Its Informal Settlers – The Informal City Dialogues http://nextcity.org/informalcity/entry/how-america-fails-its-informal-settlers 0 comments