To date, twenty-nine presidents served in the military and a dozen were even general officers.
Here s What You Need to Know: Not all Presidents were veterans, but being a veteran certainly gave them a leg up in the polls.
President Joe Biden is the “Commander in Chief” and that is far from an honorary title. In fact, the Constitution states, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.”
Since the National Security Act of 1947, that has also been understood to mean all United States Armed Forces. Yet, the exact degree of the authority that the Constitution actually grants POTUS has been the subject of debate, especially in recent years.
COVID-19 hospital admissions surpass peak seen during first wave
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6,200 people have died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin. Here are stories of some we ve lost. DAVID WAHLBERG
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Feb 21, 2021
A high school principal who cared about music and sports. A state lawyer who wrote to numerous world leaders. A preschool teacher who organized regional Girl Scout cookie sales.
They are among six more Madison-area people lost to COVID-19 whose stories the Wisconsin State Journal is sharing as the statewide death toll has passed 6,200.
The new stories join six from November and six from December.
State lawyer wrote to world leaders, had eclectic interests
Boykoff BOYKOFF FAMILY
A longtime lawyer for the state of Wisconsin whose volunteer work involved literacy and libraries, Thomas Boykoff had some unusual hobbies.
Top 10 Worst USÂ Presidents
Here is a list to get the comments flowing! First of all,
this list is not my personal opinion – it is compiled from the average score of each president over 12 surveys – taken between 1948 and 2005. Wikipedia has the complete historical rankings.
10. Calvin Coolidge 1923 – 1929
In 1919, three quarters of the Boston Police Force went on strike. Coolidge (then Governor of Massachusetts) had observed the situation throughout the conflict, but had not yet intervened. Furious that the mayor had called out state guard units, he finally acted. He called up more units of the National Guard, restored Police Commissioner Curtis to office, and took personal control of the police force. Curtis proclaimed that none of the strikers would be allowed back to their former jobs, and Coolidge issued calls for a new police force to be recruited. Many people criticized Coolidge as part of a general criticism of laissez-faire government. His reputation underwent a
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ugly, not only in form and feature, but expression.” Caphart arrived armed with papers issued by a Virginia court testifying to Minkins’s various owners. The papers estimated Minkins’s age to be twenty-five or twenty-six, his height five-feet-seven, his complexion “bacon color,” and his build “stout” and “square.”
Caphart sought and received an arrest warrant from George T. Curtis, a designated federal commissioner who would later serve as co-counsel to Dred Scott in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court. On February 14, the assistant deputy marshal, Patrick Riley, was charged with executing the warrant. The next morning, he sent deputies to Cornhill Coffee House where, with the assistance of a traveling circus worker named Charles G. Forbes, they positively identified Minkins. Although Minkins didn’t resist his arrest, after being escorted across Court Square to the courthouse, a deputy observed him uttering “wild remonstr
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