Officially, Bill Clinton was never a Freemason. Before the presidency, Clinton attended college at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC. He joined the fraternities Alpha Phi Omega and Phi Beta Kappa. During his senior year, he became a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization known to [...]

President Obama sent a list of nominations for important offices in the Executive Branch to the Senate on February 17. The administration is awaiting approval from the legislature. Many of the posts have been vacated for term expiration. The list includes: Erica Lynn Groshen, of New York, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of [...]

This week, President Obama delivered his weekly address from the Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington. Focusing on his administration’s efforts to boost American manufacturing jobs by removing the tax breaks for companies shipping jobs to other countries. He also continued to push for his goal of doubling our exports within five years. Here are his [...]

Shortly before his resignation, in 1972, President Richard Nixon took a trip to the People’s Republic of China on a peace mission between the US and the communist country. The goal of the visit was to formalize normal relations after a 25 year gap in diplomacy. Nixon’s trip was foreshadowed by a secret diplomatic mission [...]

Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. On January 9, 1913. His parents, Francis A. Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon, were both Quakers, although his father converted from Methodism after getting married. During his childhood, Nixon was raised with strong Quaker values such as abstaining from alcohol, no dancing and no swearing. He [...]

After serving himself as the 36th Vice President under the Eisenhower administration from 1953 to 1961, Nixon was elected president in 1968. His vice president was Spiro Agnew, who served from the inauguration until October 10, 1973. Agnew resigned amidst charges of tax evasion linked to allegations that he accepted $100,000 in bribes. He was [...]

In the re-election of 1996, Bill Clinton realized that it was “the economy, stupid” that held the secret to his success. For Barack Obama in 2012, that will still be the reelection mantra. But there are several other key reasons that will also be important in Democratic reelection success. Obama won in 2008 because he [...]