March 4, 1963
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMO ISSUED
On this day the White House issued National Security Action Memorandum #227.
The topic of the memo is the coordination of efforts of the federal government under the Trade Expansion Act recently passed in October 1962.
The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 granted the President of the United states the power to negotiate tariff reductions up to 50%.
The memo read: "we are already preparing for our first round of negotiations...."
Official White House portrait by Aaron Shikler (1970)
March 4, 1968
TASK FORCE SENDS MEMO TO LBJ
An "Ad Hoc" Task Force advised President Johnson today to send 22,000 more troops to Vietnam but also to make General William Westmoreland's request for 185,000 additional troops "contingent on future developments".
General Westmoreland requests the additional troops be sent before the end of this year.
March 4, 1954
DULLES ASKS FOR ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISTS
President Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, spoke before the 10th Inter-American Conference today.
He warned that "international communism" is making inroads into the Western Hemisphere & called for Latin American nations to condemn this danger.
Secretary Dulles said that there is not one country in this hemisphere which "has not been penetrated by....international communism acting under orders from Moscow."
In response, the conference passed a resolution to condemn international communism.
President Eisenhower & Secretary of State Dulles
March 4, 1952
RONALD REAGAN & NANCY DAVIS ARE MARRIED
Movie actor Ronald W. Reagan married actress Nancy Davis today at the Little Brown Church in the Valley in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Reagan is currently serving as the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
It has been reported that Miss Davis met Mr. Reagan as she was in the process of seeking to have her name removed from Senator Joe McCarthy's "blacklist" of possible communist sympathizers.*
*Nancy Regan would one day say: "My life really began when I married my husband (Ronnie)".
March 4, 1933
FDR SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was sworn in today by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes as President of the United States on the East Front of the US Capitol building.
This is the last inauguration to be held on the previously prescribed date of March 4. By the 20th amendment, all future scheduled inaugurations will be on January 20.
Standing in the rain on a gloomy day in an equally gloomy economic period of our nation's history, Mr. Roosevelt placed his hand on the Roosevelt family Dutch Bible published in 1686. It is the oldest Bible ever to be used in a Presidential inauguration.
FDR gave his stirring Inaugural Address in a commanding, confident voice. He said:
"The only thing we have to fear is....fear itself. Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror...."
Most banks in the United States have been closed permanently with the people's savings lost. More than 25% of the work force is unemployed and without support from the government. Industrial production is down 50% from 1929.*
*I think one of the best statements I ever heard on the state of the country in 1932 & 1933 came from a PBS documentary on FDR which said : "And now a man who could not walk would try to get the country back on its feet."
FDR & Eleanor in Inaugural Parade
March 4, 1861
LINCOLN SWORN-IN AS PRESIDENT
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was sworn in today as the 16th President of the United States.
Lincoln, who won an electoral majority in the 1860 election but did not carry a single Southern state, promised that his government would not interfere with slavery where it currently exists.
He did say, however, that he opposes secession & seizure of US property.
President Lincoln does firmly intend to "hold, occupy & possess" its property & collect its taxes.
The President said:
"In your hands....is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors."
March 4, 1829
"KING MOB RULES"
Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was sworn in today as the 7th President of the United States.
After the ceremony at the Capitol, President Jackson joined more than 20,000 people for "Open House" at the White House.
Some of the guests climbed on the furniture with their muddy boots while others climbed up the curtains. Some reportedly even fired their pistols into the ceiling.
The staff set up washtubs of juice & whiskey out on the lawn hoping to draw the mob outside.*
*The "Open House" tradition set by Thomas Jefferson came to an end in 1885 when Grover Cleveland cancelled it in lieu of an inaugural parade.
President Andrew Jackson
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMO ISSUED
On this day the White House issued National Security Action Memorandum #227.
The topic of the memo is the coordination of efforts of the federal government under the Trade Expansion Act recently passed in October 1962.
The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 granted the President of the United states the power to negotiate tariff reductions up to 50%.
The memo read: "we are already preparing for our first round of negotiations...."
Official White House portrait by Aaron Shikler (1970)
March 4, 1968
TASK FORCE SENDS MEMO TO LBJ
An "Ad Hoc" Task Force advised President Johnson today to send 22,000 more troops to Vietnam but also to make General William Westmoreland's request for 185,000 additional troops "contingent on future developments".
General Westmoreland requests the additional troops be sent before the end of this year.
General William Westmoreland
Senior Commander South Vietnam
Portrait by Herbert Abrams (1972)
www.history.army.mil/
March 4, 1954
DULLES ASKS FOR ACTION AGAINST COMMUNISTS
President Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, spoke before the 10th Inter-American Conference today.
He warned that "international communism" is making inroads into the Western Hemisphere & called for Latin American nations to condemn this danger.
Secretary Dulles said that there is not one country in this hemisphere which "has not been penetrated by....international communism acting under orders from Moscow."
In response, the conference passed a resolution to condemn international communism.
President Eisenhower & Secretary of State Dulles
March 4, 1952
RONALD REAGAN & NANCY DAVIS ARE MARRIED
Movie actor Ronald W. Reagan married actress Nancy Davis today at the Little Brown Church in the Valley in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Reagan is currently serving as the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
It has been reported that Miss Davis met Mr. Reagan as she was in the process of seeking to have her name removed from Senator Joe McCarthy's "blacklist" of possible communist sympathizers.*
*Nancy Regan would one day say: "My life really began when I married my husband (Ronnie)".
March 4, 1933
FDR SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was sworn in today by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes as President of the United States on the East Front of the US Capitol building.
This is the last inauguration to be held on the previously prescribed date of March 4. By the 20th amendment, all future scheduled inaugurations will be on January 20.
Standing in the rain on a gloomy day in an equally gloomy economic period of our nation's history, Mr. Roosevelt placed his hand on the Roosevelt family Dutch Bible published in 1686. It is the oldest Bible ever to be used in a Presidential inauguration.
FDR gave his stirring Inaugural Address in a commanding, confident voice. He said:
"The only thing we have to fear is....fear itself. Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror...."
Most banks in the United States have been closed permanently with the people's savings lost. More than 25% of the work force is unemployed and without support from the government. Industrial production is down 50% from 1929.*
*I think one of the best statements I ever heard on the state of the country in 1932 & 1933 came from a PBS documentary on FDR which said : "And now a man who could not walk would try to get the country back on its feet."
FDR & Eleanor in Inaugural Parade
March 4, 1861
LINCOLN SWORN-IN AS PRESIDENT
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was sworn in today as the 16th President of the United States.
Lincoln, who won an electoral majority in the 1860 election but did not carry a single Southern state, promised that his government would not interfere with slavery where it currently exists.
He did say, however, that he opposes secession & seizure of US property.
President Lincoln does firmly intend to "hold, occupy & possess" its property & collect its taxes.
The President said:
"In your hands....is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors."
March 4, 1829
"KING MOB RULES"
Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was sworn in today as the 7th President of the United States.
After the ceremony at the Capitol, President Jackson joined more than 20,000 people for "Open House" at the White House.
Some of the guests climbed on the furniture with their muddy boots while others climbed up the curtains. Some reportedly even fired their pistols into the ceiling.
The staff set up washtubs of juice & whiskey out on the lawn hoping to draw the mob outside.*
*The "Open House" tradition set by Thomas Jefferson came to an end in 1885 when Grover Cleveland cancelled it in lieu of an inaugural parade.
President Andrew Jackson
