Video: 'HD Stock Footage Franklin D. Roosevelt - Bank Holiday - Repeals Prohibition (Mar. 9, 1933, at 1:13)
(Thursday, March 9, 1933; during the Great Depression) — Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, today began its “hundred days” of enacting New Deal legislation.
Video: 'Richard Nixon plays his Piano Concerto #1'
(Friday, March 8, 1963, 10 p.m. EST) — Former Vice President Richard Nixon appeared on tonight’s edition of The Jack Paar Program, performing one of his musical compositions on the piano.
Video: 'President Ronald Reagan - "Evil Empire" Speech'
(Tuesday, March 8, 1983) — In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals convention today in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.”
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 6, 1933, 6:57 a.m. local time) — Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, wounded in the February 15, 1933, attempt on then-President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s life the previous month, died today at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Gunman Giuseppe Zangara pleaded guilty to Cermak’s murder and was put to death in the electric chair just two weeks later on March 20, 1933.
Video: 'The 1993 State of the Union (Address to a Joint Session of the Congress)'
(Wednesday, February 17, 1993, 9 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton tonight proposed a comprehensive program of tax increases and spending cuts designed to trim the Federal deficit over the next four years by $500 billion, or 38 percent, and to revitalize the nation’s economy. Continue reading Clinton calls for ‘new direction’ with tax hikes, spending cuts mix in State of the Union message 20 years ago this hour (1993)
Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/83'
(Tuesday, January 25, 1983, 9 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan, declaring that “America is on the mend” in his second State of the Union message, urged Congress tonight to support a broad freeze in the growth of domestic spending — necessary, he said, to assure a strong economic recovery.
Video: Jan. 25, 1973 (7:10)
(Thursday, January 25, 1973) — Former U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson was laid to rest today in the Stonewall, Texas ranch, cemetery where his family members have been buried for three-quarters of a century.
Johnson, 64, was fatally stricken Jan. 22, 1973, at his ranch house a quarter mile from the cemetery where he was buried.
Video: 'January 14, 1963 - John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address in color'
(Monday, January 14, 1963, 12:30 p.m. EST) — In a State of the Union message notable for its tone of confidence in the nation’s domestic and foreign prospects, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called today for a three-year program of tax reduction totaling $13.5 billion. Continue reading Kennedy requests $13.5 billion in tax cuts in State of the Union message 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy - January 1963'
(Tuesday, January 8, 1963, 9:30 p.m. EST) — Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa on loan to the United States from the Louvre Museum in Paris, went on display today at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, in attendance. Continue reading Kennedy welcomes da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to Washington 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: Jan. 8, 1973 (at 13:11)
(Monday, January 8, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica began selecting jurors today in Washington for the long-awaited trial of seven men charged in the June 1972 Watergate burglary, for which several past and present White House aides were named as prospective government witnesses.
