Aug. 5, 1981: Air Traffic Controllers Strike
(Wednesday, August 5, 1981) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan today fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who ignored his order to return to work. Nearly 13,000 controllers walked off the job Aug. 3 after talks with the Federal Aviation Administration collapsed.
(click here to watch the full program, with July 28, 1921 @ 53:22)
(Thursday, July 28, 1921) — 1920 Democratic vice presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt visited a large Boy Scout encampment at Bear Mountain, New York, today, where it is believed he was infected by the polio virus.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Wednesday, July 28, 1971) — E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks,” proposed to Nixon Special Counsel Charles Colson that the “plumbers” burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, to discredit him. Continue reading Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched
Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941
(Saturday, July 26, 1941) — In response to Thursday’s Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered today the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Saturday, July 24, 1971, 12:36pm ET) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered lie detector tests for government officials following a series of national security leaks in The New York Times, including the Pentagon Papers.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — The New York Times newspaper printed another leak today, giving away the Nixon administration’s fallback position in nuclear missile negotiations with the Soviets.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned. Ehrlichman called the operation off.
(Wednesday, July 8, 1891) — Future U.S. President Warren G. Harding, 25, today married Florence Kling DeWolfe, 30, a divorcée and the mother of a young son, at his home in Marion, Ohio.
FDR Dedicates His Library
(Monday, June 30, 1941) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated today the $350,000 library which bears his name with a declaration of faith in the future of free America.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Ot0orIFUk
LBJ Campaign 1941
(Saturday, June 28, 1941) — Texas Governor and radio personality W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Lyndon Johnson today for the U.S. Senate in a special election by only 1,311 votes (click here to watch “American Experience: The Presidents: LBJ” — the 1941 race starts at 16:12)
