On June 30, 1882, a presidential assassin met his fate following his shooting of President James Garfield, a wound that eventually killed the 20th president. The National Parks service explains that even by nineteenth-century standards, “Guiteau was obviously mentally ill. He considered himself a…
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On January 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton said something on national television that became a defining aspect of his presidency: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in the…
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On September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt truly became “the man in the arena” after the death of his predecessor, William McKinley. The assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, in Buffalo, New York, marked a tragic and pivotal moment in American history.…
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