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Prez Missteps
WH Happenings
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Naughty Cabinets
100
My Secretary of State, General George Marshall, outlined a plan to rebuild Europe in a speech at Harvard. Later he won a Nobel Prize for this.
Truman
100
A beer was named after my alcoholic brother, Billy.
Carter
100
I showed movies at the WH for the first time.
Harding
100
Lindburg made his 1st flight across the Atlantic.
Coolidge
100
My Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer used the Espionage Act and Sedition Act as justification to mass-arrest left-wing individuals, dissidents and foreigners. The ACLU was created partially in response to this.
Wilson
200
As the first head of the EPA, William Ruckelshaus forced polluted cities and automobile companies to meet code and banned the general use of the pesticide DDT.
Nixon
200
The CIA overthrew the prime minister of Iran and the elected government of Guatemala and supported training of anti-Castro exiles in Guatemala.
Eisenhower
200
Famous crooner Frank Sinatra produced my inaugural ball.
Kennedy
200
The Lindberg baby was kidnapped during my presidency. Also Amelia Earhart became famous, and the first flight happened over the South Pole.
Hoover
200
My Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, secretly granted an oil executive the exclusive right to drill on the a reserve in Wyoming in return for $400,000. (hence the term "Fall Guy")
Harding
300
Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld as my Defense Secretary, restoring the Defense Dept's reputation after Rumsfeld's mismanagement of the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraib scandal.
George W. Bush
300
I restored this dictator, Adolfo Diaz, to power in Nicaragua.
Coolidge
300
My daughter Trisha was married in Rose Garden.
300
Gone with the Wind book and movie came out.
FDR
300
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara directed the increasing deployment of U.S. forces to Vietnam under these two presidents.
Kennedy & Johnson
400
My Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, helped implement the Family and Medical Leave Act, rose the minimum wage, and cracked down on sweatshops.
Bill Clinton
400
The Rwandan genocide happened under my watch. Maybe I was too tentative because of the Black Hawk Down incident in Somalia.
Clinton
400
I got rid of the presidential yacht, Saquoia.
Carter
400
The space shuttle Challenger exploded, and Princess Diana married Prince Charles.
Reagan
400
Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under these two presidents.
Ford & George W Bush
500
Elizabeth Dole, my Transportation Secretary, improved automobile brake-light systems, provided incentives to manufacturers to include air bags in new vehicles, and bolstered seat-belt use.
Ronald Reagan
500
The US lost its AAA credit rating while I was president.
Obama
500
I was the first president to send an email.
500
Sandy Hook school shooting happened while I was president, where a shooter killed 20 first graders and teachers in CT.
Obama
500
My FEMA director, Michael Brown, a former breeder of Arabian horses, failed in his response to Hurricane Katrina.
George W Bush