In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Spiro T. Agnew (about the press, 1970)
To most brush shavers
It's quite clear
The yanks aren't coming
The yanks are here
Use brushless
Burma Shave
1942
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Robert H. Jackson
Major Events of the Nixon Administration (1970)
January 1 - Signs National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
January 19 - Nominates G. Harrold Carswell as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
January 22 - Delivers first State of the Union message to Congress
January 26 - Vetoes the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)- Labor Appropriation Bill
March 11 - Announces an expanded program to combat drug abuse
March 16 - Establishes Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
April 8 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by a vote of 51 to 45
April 14 - Nominates Harry A. Blackmun as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
April 30 - Announces the launching of military attacks on enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia
May 4 - National Guardsmen fire on antiwar demonstrators at Kent State University
May 12 - By a vote of 94-0, Senate confirms nomination of Harry A. Blackmun as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
June 9 - Harry A. Blackmun takes the judicial oath as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
June 10 - Announces extension of Welfare Reform proposals
July 9 - Announces plan to establish the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
July 24 - Signs Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970
August 12 - Signs Postal Reorganization Act
August 17 - Signs Extension of Defense Production Act
September 27-October 5 - Visits Italy, Vatican City, Yugoslavia, Spain, and Great Britain
November 30 - Signs Agricultural Act of 1970
December 21 - Elvis Presley meets President Nixon in the Oval Office
December 31 - Signs Clean Air Act of 1970
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
Robert H. Jackson
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Madison was a half first cousin twice removed of
George Washington and a second cousin of Zachary Taylor
