Bush Hears About 9/11
It seemed to be a quiet Tuesday morning when President Bush sat with children at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota County, Florida. The president was promoting literacy in America while reading and listening to children read The Pet Goat. This is the exact moment that his aide informed him of the devastating attacks on the World Trade Centers by Al Qaeda terrorists.
Bush Hears About 911
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was a republican who served as the 19th US president between the years 1877 and 1881, having won the electoral vote despite having lost the popular vote after several months of dispute (similar to the elections in the year 2000) and interestingly, the famous author Mark Twain also gave Hayes his support. He was a three-term governor of Ohio before he became president and he started his political career by being a member of the currently non-existent Whig party and he was also a supporter of the civil rights expansion of the black community, even though the Congress’ Democratic majority eventually got in the way of the efforts he made. He was also a famous advocate of civil service exams because he wanted to make sure that people who work for the government earned the jobs they have instead of just getting in due to political ties, which eventually became the Pendleton Act. Hayes’ wife is the first ever first lady who was college-educated and the first in history to vouch for an alcohol-free White House.
Rutherford B. Hayes
