Today is President Barack Obama’s forty-eighth birthday. How does he plan to celebrate? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released the following statement giving the run-down of Obama’s scheduled birthday activities: In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the...
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of The United States. Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York to Abraham Van Buren, a tavern keeper and farmer of Dutch descent, and Maria Hoes van Alen van Buren. Van Buren's early education began in a small school house in his...
William "Bill" Clinton was the 42nd President of The United States. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas to William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., and Virginia Dell Cassidy. When Clinton was three months old, Clinton's grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy,...
Vice President Joe Biden contributed humor at Thursday's Health Care Summit at the Blair House. CSPAN's cameras followed Biden during the afternoon session of the summit. CSPAN also recorded a conversation he had with one of the participants and reported: "It's easy being vice president — you...
Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman was the subject of a failed assassination attempt on January 29, 2011. The attack left a pair of Suleiman's body guards dead and was deemed an "organized attack" launched upon Suleiman's motorcade shortly after he was appointed vice president by Egyptian leader...
Lexus recall affects 17,000 2010 model year Lexus HS 250h vehicles due to safety concerns. Mark Templin, Lexus Group Vice President and General Manager, issued a statement on June 25, 2010 in reference to the Noncompliance Information Report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety...
Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August, 1908, in Texas. He became the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America following the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. In 1964, the electorate officially elected him as president based on the positive social changes he had...
Universally and instantly recognizable, the President of the United States – the heads of state and government of the world’s largest superpower, the commander–in-chief of the US Armed Forces, the omnipotent and oft-termed “Leader of the Free World” – requires no long-winded or flowery introduction. What does require clarification, however, are the notions of “smartness” and “dumbness”.
Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, has attacked the justice department lawyers who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. On the “Keep America Safe” website owned and operated by Liz and through conservative media, by posting a video and photos of the "Al Qaeda Seven." Liz's...
The University of Maryland conducted a study of FOX News viewers and found the majority of them are "misinformed." Upon publishing of the results from the study, FOX News senior vice president Michael Clemente issued a statement to Brian Stelter of the New York Times claiming the school itself...
