A true high-tech POTUS, Hayes was friends w/inventors like Edison & Bell. Showed their wares in White House, knowing it would boost economy. The White House got its first telephone when Hayes was President. The number was "1." Sometimes he answered himself. Not like that today
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The second-most important farewell speech in American history. On This Day in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower, the former five-star general and hero of D-Day, said the U.S. military had too much influence, cost too much and threatened the very liberty it was designed to protectpic.twitter.com/higCo5ZUcw
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Eisenhower said the U.S. defense industry was profiting off Americans’ national security paranoia; he warned of the dangers of "misplaced power” and what he called the "military-industrial complex."
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On This Day. 1994: Bill Clinton was ordered to pay Paula Jones $850K - settling a sexual harassment suit against a sitting President. Clinton's lawyers tried to use presidential immunity as a reason to dismiss Jones’ harassment suit. A federal judge rejected the request
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I just pictured Hayes sitting at his desk, answer his phone, “White House, Hayes speaking” and I can’t stop laughing.
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