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1790 Construction begins on the White House.
1792 Foundation of Washington, DC. The cornerstone of the United States
Executive Mansion, known as the White House since 1818, is laid.
1800 U.S. President John Adams
becomes the first President of the United States
to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1841 U.S. President John Tyler
vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland
marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the first and only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
1890 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.
1901 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
invites African American
leader Booker T. Washington
to the White House. The American South reacts angrily to the visit, and racial violence increases in the region.
1922 President of the United States
, Warren G. Harding
introduces the first radio
in the White House.
1924 Calvin Coolidge
becomes the first President of the United States
to deliver a radio
broadcast from the White House.
1934 Einstein
visits White House
1962 First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy takes television
viewers on a tour of the White House.
1971 A bomb explodes in the men's room at the White House; the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1972 Watergate scandal
: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
1972 Watergate Scandal
: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman
are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency
to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation
's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler
tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American
troop withdrawals from Vietnam
due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1973 Watergate Scandal
: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate
Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon
had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1973 President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1974 Watergate Scandal
: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon
did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974 Three Republican
congressional leaders (Barry Goldwater
, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes) visit President Nixon in the White House. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape impeachment
in the House of Representatives
and conviction in the Senate
.
1975 Watergate scandal
: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell
, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman
and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and eight years in prison.
1979 In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat
of Egypt
and Prime Minister Menachem Begin
of Israel
sign a peace treaty.
1983 Martin Luther King Day
: At the White House Rose Garden, President
Ronald Reagan
signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan
meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson
at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
1993 White House deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. commits suicide in Virginia.
1994 Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House. Duran was later convicted of trying to kill President Bill Clinton
.
1998 A tourist visiting the White House sprays paint onto a marble bust of Giuseppe Ceracchi.
1998 Lewinsky scandal
: On American television, President Bill Clinton
denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky
.
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky
receives transactional immunity, in exchange for her grand jury
testimony concerning her relationship with U.S. President Bill Clinton
.
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: U.S. President Bill Clinton
admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
. He also admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.
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