Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This is a holiday in which many Presidents have been a part of, from Washington to Biden. In fact even before there was the office of President of the United States, there was Thanksgiving. During the American Revolutionary War the Continental Congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each year, recommending the ( Read more... )

The election of 1980 was held on November 4th. Also being held at that time were fifty-two American diplomats and citizens, who had been held captive for exactly one year since November 4, 1979 when a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, captured and took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. On April ( Read more... )

This being Halloween, it is probably fitting that we tell a ghost story, that of Lincoln's ghost and the monarch who claimed to have had an encounter with it. The ghost of President Abraham Lincoln, also known as the White House Ghost, is said to have haunted the White House since Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Lincoln's ghost has also been said ( Read more... )

Bill Clinton's campaign team had engineered an amazing victory over a once-popular incumbent in 1992, labeling the controversial former Arkansas Governor "the Comeback Kid". For the second election in a row it would be a contest between a Democrat, a Republican and a third party candidate in the form of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, although ( Read more... )

In 1976, voters wanted a Washington outsider after the Watergate scandal and the subsequent pardon of Richard Nixon, so they rejected Gerald Ford in favor of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. But after four years of Carter, things weren't going much better. In fact the economy has taken a turn for the worse, with interest rates reaching record levels ( Read more... )

Many people believe that presidential election debates and running mate selections make very little difference in the outcome of a election. The 1988 contest tends to support that theory, given that in early October one of the most memorable debate moments took place in that contest, not in the debates between the presidential candidates, but in ( Read more... )

n 1976 the odds were stacked against Gerald Ford in his bid to be elected as President of the United States in his own right. Ford had become President following the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974. At first there was considerable public support for Ford, who was perceived as an honest breath of fresh air after the many ( Read more... )

Today is President Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday. James Earl Carter Jr.was born on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium, in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in a hospital.


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An October surprise is a news event that may influence the outcome of an upcoming November Presidential election, whether deliberately planned or spontaneously occurring. Because election day is in early November, events that take place in October have greater potential to influence the decisions of prospective voters and allow less time to take ( Read more... )

The first debate between the presidential candidates for the two major political parties in the 2024 US Presidential election was held on June 27, 2024. It was sponsored by the Cable News Network, better known as CNN. At the time the political parties had not formally nominated their candidates but Joe Biden and Donald Trump were the presumptive ( Read more... )