POTUS -- Presidents of the United States

On This Date In POTUS History

1786 James Monroe married Elizabeth Kortright.
1862 After 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered, General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, TN.
1971 At Nixon's direction, the Secret Service installed recording devices in the White House.

POTUS Quote

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”