POTUS -- Presidents of the United States

On This Date In POTUS History

1817 Mississippi admitted to the Union as the 20th state.
1898 U.S. and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1920 Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1971 Nixon's nominee to the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, confirmed by the Senate.
2009 Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

POTUS Quote

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”