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 "The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
begins with the destruction of the truth."
-- Bill Clinton
[William Jefferson Blythe III] (1946- ), 42nd US President
Source: 10/15/95, University of Connecticut

Colin Powell on Meet the Press 10/19/2008

SEATTLE, WA — Joe Biden says he’s certain that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis to test his strength within the first 6 months of his presidency.

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.” he told a fundraising crowd in the Pacific Northwest on Sunday. “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“He’s gonna have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen.”

The Delaware Senator made similar remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser the day before. “We’re going to face a major international challenge. Because they’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine,” Biden said. He told the crowd to continue to stand by Obama and know they made the right choice even when the going gets tough.

According to Joe Biden  As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, he guarantee's you it’s gonna happen and ”they are going to want to test him ! Who is they ? How has the last several presidents been tested in  their first 6 months...

On a frigid Winter's day, January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office as the 35th President of the United States. At age 43, he was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected. He had won by one of the smallest margins of victory, only 115,000 popular votes. This is the speech he delivered announcing the dawn of a new era as young Americans born in the 20th century first assumed leadership of the Nation.

January 14, 1963 JFK calls for the biggest income tax cut in U.S. history in an effort to strengthen the economy during his State of the Union address. He argues that the current tax system is too burdensome on private purchasing, profits and employment, and that it prevents economic growth.

On June 4, 1963,Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business.

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November 22, 1963 Johnson becomes the thirty-sixth President of the United States after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is sworn in aboard Air Force One.

 November 29, 1963 Johnson signs an Executive Order establishing the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

January 9, 1964 Panamanian President Robert Chiari breaks diplomatic relations with the U.S. after riots erupt when U.S. students raise the American flag in the Canal Zone. After tensions subside, LBJ begins efforts to renegotiate the Panama Canal Treaty; diplomatic relations are restored on April 3.

January 20, 1969 becomes the thirty-seventh President of the United States. 

August 9, 1974  Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States. In his swearing-in remarks, Ford announces “Our long, national nightmare is over.” Following the ceremony, President Ford goes immediately to work, meeting with Congressional leaders, senior White House staff, transition advisers, senior economic advisers, and foreign emissaries.

August 12, 1974 Ford addresses a Joint Session of Congress. He states, “I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage.” He also states his first priority is to bring inflation under control, declaring it “public enemy number one.”

August 19, 1974 Ford delivers a major speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Chicago, supporting earned clemency for Vietnam War draft evaders.

August 20, 1974  Ford nominates Nelson Rockefeller, former Governor of New York, to be Vice President.

August 28, 1974  Ford holds his first press conference as President. Many of the questions concern unresolved issues surrounding Watergate.

September 8, 1974 Ford pardons Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed as President. The surprise announcement stuns the country and Ford's approval rating plummets in the polls.

September 27-28, 1974
The White House convenes a “summit conference” on inflation and the economy.

October 8, 1974  Ford announces his Whip Inflation Now program to a joint session of Congress.

October 15, 1974  Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974, which seek to regulate campaign fundraising and spending.

October 17, 1974  Ford appears before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice to explain the facts and circumstances that were the basis for his pardon of former President Richard Nixon.

October 17, 1974  Ford vetoes the Freedom of Information Act Amendments believing not enough protection is given to sensitive and classified intelligence documents. Congress overrides Ford’s veto on November 21, 1974 making the bill law.


November 5, 1974  Republicans lose 40 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate, widening the Democratic majority in Congress during the mid-term elections.

November 17, 1974  Ford departs for a visit to Japan -- the first visit to that country by an American President -- and to South Korea and the Soviet Union.

November 23, 1974
Ford and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., meet in Vladivostok, U.S.S.R.

December 19, 1974 Following Congressional approval, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as the forty-first Vice President of the United States. 


January 13, 1975
Ford delivers a “fireside chat” to the nation, outlining his proposals to fight inflation, the economic recession, and energy dependence.

January 15, 1975  In his first State of the Union Address, Ford announces bluntly that “the state of the Union is not good. Millions of Americans are out of work. Recession and inflation are eroding the money of millions more. Prices are too high, and sales are too slow.” To remedy these problems, Ford proposes tax cuts for American families and businesses, and strongly advocates for the reduction of government spending. 

January 20, 1977 and the 39th President of the United States -1977 - 1981. He was the first Georgian to be elected President and the first President elected from the deep South since 1848.

Jan. 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th president of the United States. On the same day, Iran releases the 52 remaining hostages who had been held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran for 444 days.

March 30, 1981 Reagan is shot in the chest upon leaving a Washington hotel but makes a full recovery after surgery. Three other people, including Reagan press secretary James Brady, are wounded in the assassination attempt. John Hinckley Jr. is charged but found not guilty by reason of insanity.

April 28, 1981 Reagan appears before Congress for the first time since the assassination attempt. He receives a hero's welcome and overwhelming support for his economic package, which includes cuts in social programs and taxes, and increases in defense spending.

July 29, 1981 Congress passes Reagan's tax bill. Instead of a 30% tax cut over three years, Reagan accepts 25%.

Aug. 3, 1981 Air traffic controllers go on strike. Reagan gives them 48 hours to get back to work, and fires those who refuse.

Fall 1982 The nation sinks into its worst recession since the Great Depression. Reagan fears budget deficits as high as $200 billion. On Nov. 1, more than 9 million Americans are officially unemployed.

Jan. 31, 1983 Reagan submits his fiscal 1984 budget to Congress. The recession, tax cuts and increased defense outlays are blamed for a projected $189 billion budget gap. Reagan vows to "stay the course," rejecting advice to raise taxes or cut defense.

March 8, 1983 In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Reagan warns against ignoring "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire," the U.S.S.R.

Sept. 1, 1983 A Soviet fighter downs Korean Air Lines flight (KAL 007), killing all 269 people aboard, including 61 Americans. Reagan denounces it as a "crime against humanity."

Oct. 23, 1983 A suicide truck bomber crashes into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 members of the peacekeeping force.

Oct. 25, 1983 U.S. troops invade Grenada to oust Marxists who had overthrown the government, and to protect U.S. medical students on the Caribbean island.

Jan. 16, 1984 Reagan calls for a return to arms talks with the U.S.S.R.

May 9, 1984 In a televised speech, Reagan urges helping the Contra "freedom fighters" in Nicaragua.

Nov. 13, 1986 Reagan admits sending some defensive weapons and spare parts to Iran but denies it was part of an arms-for-hostages deal.

April 14, 1988 The Soviet Union agrees to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

May 5, 1988 In his memoir For the Record, Donald Regan reveals that Nancy Reagan relied on an astrologer to set the dates for her husband's public appearances

February 1990 Reagan gives videotaped testimony in the Iran-Contra trial of former aide John Poindexter.

December 1991 The Soviet Union is formally dissolved.

Nov. 5, 1994 Reagan discloses in a letter that he has Alzheimer's disease. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life," he writes. "I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

 January 20, 1989 Bush is inaugurated as the forty-first President of the United States.

January 20, 1993 Clinton is inaugurated as the forty-second President of the United States.

Jan 20 2001, Bush is inaugurated as the the 43rd President of the United States ! 

Jan 11 2001  President-elect Bush has a top-secret session with the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff, reviewing spots around world where he might have to send U.S. forces. The focus is on Iraq and the Persian Gulf. Bush has been critical of the Clinton administration for allowing the international coalition against Iraq to erode and the sanctions against Iraq to loosen. Jan 17 2001 President Clinton's National Security Advisor meets with Bush's appointed National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. An attack by terrorists within the United States is Berger's over-riding concern, and he tells Rice: "I believe that the Bush Administration will spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al-Qaeda specifically, than any other subject." Jan 20 2001 President Clinton pardons 111 people, including Susan McDougal, Patricia Hearst Shaw, and his half-brother Roger Clinton. George W. Bush is sworn in as President of the United States. Jan 25 2001  Richard Clarke, member of the National Security Council, who had served three previous presidents,  sends a memo to Rice suggesting a major presidential policy review to address the "challenge" to the U.S. posed by the al Qaeda network.   Jan 28 2001 A defector from Saddam Hussein's Iraq tell the British newspaper, The Telegraph, that Hussein has two fully operational nuclear bombs and is working on others. Jan 30 2001 Bush administration holds its first National Security Council meeting. Iraq gets attention and al Qaeda does not, or hardly any. At the meeting, CIA director George Tenet states that a factory in Iraq “might” be producing “either chemical or biological materials for weapons manufacture.” He admits that there is “no confirming intelligence.” Feb 12 2001  The Human Genome Project international consortium announces the publication of an analysis of the human genome: a blueprint of the sequence of the three billion chemical letters embodied in genetic heredity. Feb 15 2001 Former senators Hart and Rudman issue their final report on national security. It warns that the U.S. is unprepared for a "catastrophic'' domestic terrorist attack. Feb 15 2001 President Bush tells the West Virginia National Guard that "over-deployments" strain troops, their families the civilian employers of National Guardsmen. Feb 16 2001 Responding to Iraqi targeting of allied warplanes flying in the UN created "no fly zones," twenty-four U.S. and British aircraft attack Iraqi radar stations and air command centers, including targets around Baghdad. Feb 17 2001 President Bush says that "Saddam Hussein has got to understand that we expect him to conform to the agreement that he signed after Desert Storm [1991].'' Feb 18 2001 FBI agent Robert Hannsen is arrested and charged with having spied for Russia for the past fifteen years. Mar 1 2001 Mohamed Atta, and a friend, Marwan al-Shehhi, are in Florida practicing flying with a small Piper Warrior aircraft.  Atta is thirty-three, an Egyptian and former student of architecture in Hamburg, Germany. He is passionately opposed to Israel and U.S. support for Israel. He believes that Jews centered in New York City control the finances and media of the world and that "Saddam Hussein is an American stooge set up to give Washington an excuse to intervene in the Middle East." Apr 1 2001  A new law in the Netherlands legalizes same-sex marriages for the first time since the reign of Nero.    Apr 2 2001  A U.S. spy aircraft has collided with a Chinese fighter jet and is forced to land in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained and the plane is confiscated. China blames the United States and the U.S. blames China. President Bush insists on the return of the airplane's crew and the airplane, "without further damaging or tampering."   Apr 11 2001 Regarding China, President Bush has toned down the belligerent rhetoric and allowed quiet go-it-alone diplomacy. China returns the crew of the plane that landed in Hainan. The spy plane is to be cut into pieces and flown out of China in a Russian cargo plane. May 1 2001  President Bush describes the possible possession of missiles by rogue states as “today’s most urgent threat.”   Jun 6 2001  German intelligence warns the U.S. CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are “planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture. Jun 11 2001 The United States executes Timothy McVeigh for his bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City. Jun 16 2001 Speaking of President Putin of Russia, President Bush says, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy... I was able to get a sense of his soul." Jun 20 2001  In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a bloodless military coup in 1999,  declares himself President.  Jul 16 2001 China and Russia sign a Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.  Aug 6 2001 President Bush receives an intelligence memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."  The memo says that bin Laden may attempt to hijack airplanes. The report mentions the al Qaeda operative, Ahmed Ressam, who intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the beginning of the year but was caught at the U.S.-Canadian border. Aug 10 2001  British and U.S. war planes  attack air-defense sites in southern Iraq. The Pentagon says three Iraq air defense system targets are destroyed. Sep 9 2001 In Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of the Northern Alliance, an enemy of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden, is  assassinated by a suicide bomber posing as a journalist.   Sep 11 2001  In the U.S. nothing has been done to increase airport security.  Hijackers have no trouble boarding commercial airlines. They turn the aircraft into missiles. Still without adequate radios, more than 200 firefighters in the north tower do not received an evacuation call. Almost 3000 are killed in New York City. At the Pentagon, 184 are killed. Sep 11 2001 Around noon New York time, the Taliban government in Afghanistan denounces the attacks. Around 6 PM, Iraq announces that the attacks are the fruit of "U.S. crimes against humanity."  In the evening President Bush tells the American people that they have seen evil and that he will make no distinction between those responsible for the attacks and those who harbor them. Sep 12 2001  Regarding the attack on September 11, Bush tells Richard Clarke: "Go back over everything. Everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in anyway." Sep 16 2001 President Bush tells his Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice: " We won't do Iraq now, but it's a question we're gonna have to return to." Sep 18 2001 Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, says that Islam condemns the massacre of defenseless people. There is hope among Iranians that the U.S. will acquire a more favorable attitude toward the government of Iran. Sep 18 2001 Talk for the past few days of terrorists using biological agents is followed on this day by five letters containing anthrax sent from Trenton New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post and the National Enquirer. By the year 2008 the FBI will conclude that the anthrax attacks are by someone at the heart of work with anthrax: Bruce Ivins, a mentally unstable civilian microbiologist hired by the U.S. Army. Sep 21 2001 President Bush has demanded  that the Taliban deliver to the U.S. Osama bin Laden. The Taliban  replies that it would turn over bin Laden only if presented with evidence of his guilt and that he should be tried by Muslim clerics Sep 24 2001 The Taliban calls for a jihad against America if U.S. forces enter Afghanistan. Oct 5 2001 The first death occurs believed from the anthrax sent in letters postmarked September 18. Oct 7 2001 The United States and Britain begin bombing targets in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden calls on all Muslims to wage a holy war against the United States. Pro-Taliban and anti-U.S. demonstrations erupt in Pakistan. Oct 9 2001 Letters containing anthrax are sent again from Trenton New Jersey and are addressed to two Democratic senators: Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. These two are Roman Catholics. Bruce Ivins is also a Roman Catholic and will be described as opposed to abortion and perhaps hostile to the liberal positions on abortion by the two senators. Oct 9 2001 Pakistan troops fight the Taliban on the Pakistani-Afghan border.   Dec 2 2001 Enron Corporation files for bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history. Dec 22 2001  In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is sworn  in as head of the interim government .

 Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes At Bush - Bush Gets The Boot ...

To be continued....

Jan 20 2009, Obama is inaugurated as the the 44th President of the United States !