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10/1/2008: “An act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.” Thus read the Enabling Act of 1889, approved by the Fiftieth Congress on February 22, of that year. It set into motion the final division of Dakota Territory into two separate states as well as the creation of Montana and Washington.

Cheers to Archie Cox: Principles before partisanship Peter Goodman Fifty years ago, if you saw a pickup truck in Harvard Law School’s parking lot, it belonged to Archie. Professor Archibald Cox, who loved his farm and his horses. Archie was a Yankee, and born to law. His father was a noted lawyer. His great-grandfather, William Evarts, had prosecuted Jefferson Davis and defended Andrew Johnson against impeachment. Archie was a diligent and brilliant lawyer; but what makes any of this worth telling was his quiet, stubborn commitment to do right. He fell into politics when fellow New Englande...

Skip to main content Currently Reading This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor's inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. Ronald G. Shafer, The Washington Post Jan. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The peeved president decided to skip his successor's inauguration ceremony. The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol. Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Donald Trump, who maintain...

This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. Ronald G. Shafer The peeved president decided to skip his successor’s inauguration ceremony. The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol. Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Trump, who maintains the election was stolen from him, and Joe Biden. On Thursday night, a...