Veterans Day came a day after the president spoke at a memorial service at the Army base at Fort Hood,Texas.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

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At the end of the day, even President Obama admitted that differences between the two sides may be too great for compromise.

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It was a tradition to open the White House on that day so the president could wish visitors a happy new year.

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The next year,President Woodrow Wilson signed a document declaring November eleventh as Armistice Day in the United States.

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There were many changes in the social customs and day-to-day life of millions of Americans during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge.

VOA: special.2011.01.06

On that same day, Abraham Lincoln left his home in Illinois to become president of the United States.

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President Obama asked Congress for an additional two billion dollars which could last through Labor Day, September seventh.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

The next day, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and supporter of the defeated Confederacy, shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

On his second day as president, Lincoln received some bad news from Fort Sumter at Charleston,South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

On Veterans Day,the president traditionally lays a wreath of flowers next to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

One soldier told of guarding the president's house on a day when Lincoln was sitting on the porch with his young son Tad.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The president,born in Hawaii, began his eight-day trip in Japan, then visited Singapore, China and South Korea.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

The last day for nominations was February first, less than two weeks after the president took office.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Finally,President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution in May of nineteen fourteen that officially established Mother's Day.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Joseph Kennedy told his friends that his sons would one day run for president.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Susan Bass is the vice president of programs and operations at Earth Day Network.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

President Obama had hoped to sign a final bill by July fourth, Independence Day.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The location of President Lincoln's Cottage has not changed since Lincoln's day.

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They would return the next day to nominate their candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The next day,President McKinley went to the fair's temple of music.

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Zachary Taylor was sworn-in as president that same day.

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