Video: 'State of the Union Address: Speech by President Clinton (1994)'
(Tuesday, January 25, 1994, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton threatened in his State of the Union address tonight to veto any health care proposal that does not guarantee coverage for all Americans and he laid down a broad, unequivocal challenge to Congress to deliver his ambitious domestic agenda.
Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/84'
(Wednesday, January 25, 1984, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared in an election-year State of the Union address tonight that “America is back, standing tall,” and he sought constitutional power to trim spending and pare the federal deficit without raising taxes.
Video: 'George W. Bush-State of the Union Address (January 20, 2004)'
(Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:01 p.m. EST) — President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address tonight, warned Americans that there could still be a terrorist attack on the United States, and then presented the nation with a choice between his continued leadershi and a return to the “dangerous illusion” that the threat had ended (click here to watch the full video).
(Thursday, January 20, 1994) — Former U.S. President Richard Nixon joined his one-time White House colleagues today to recall the achievements of the Nixon administration and to launch a new Center for Peace and Freedom that they hope will continue the work they started exactly 25 years earlier with his first inauguration (click here to watch a video of the event).
Video: 'Excerpt from President Eisenhower's 1954 State of the Union Address'
(Thursday, January 7, 1954) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower called for voting rights for 18-year-olds and held out hope of future tax cuts in his State of the Union address before Congress today.
(Tuesday, December 23, 1913) — The Federal Reserve Act, an Act of Congress that created and set up the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender, was signed into law today by President Woodrow Wilson.
Video: 'Who Erased 18 Minutes of Nixon Watergate Tapes?'
(Monday, November 26, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court today that she’d accidentally caused part of the 18-1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
Video: 'John F. Kennedy Funeral November 25, 1963' (enternal flame lit at 42:09)
(Monday, November 25, 1963, 3:02 p.m. EST) — Jacqueline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s widow today lit the eternal flame, a presidential memorial at the gravesite of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery. The president’s brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, symbolically lit the flame after her. Continue reading President Kennedy’s widow lights eternal flame 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'John F. Kennedy Funeral November 25, 1963' (flyover at Arlington at 34:45)
(Monday, November 25, 1963, 2:43 p.m. EST) — The aircraft flyover and flag folding ceremony was held this afternoon during burial services for John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. Continue reading Aircraft flyover, flag folding ceremony held at JFK grave site service 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'John John Salutes the Coffin of His Father'
(Monday, November 25, 1963, 1:09 p.m. EST) — John F. Kennedy, Jr., who turned three years old today, saluted his father’s casket following the service for the assassinated president at St. Matthew’s Cathedral. The caisson carrying JFK’s body then departed for the procession to Arlington National Cemetery. Continue reading John F. Kennedy, Jr. salutes his father’s casket 50 years ago this hour (1963)
