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The interest owed on the U.S.’s debt at the end of the 1780s, $4.5 million a year, was greater than the U.S.’s yearly revenue.
Fergus M. Bordewich, Washington: The Making of the American Capital (New York: Amistad, 2008), 34.
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The United States government made 371 treaties with Indigenous nations before the Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 banned the practice.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014), 142. When Nelson Rockefeller introduced Richard M. Nixon as the Republican Party’s nominee for president at the party’s convention in 1960, he incorrectly announced him as “Richard E. Nixon.”
David Pietrusza, 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign that Forged Three Presidencies (New York: Union Square Press, 2008), 230. Republican President Herbert Hoover was excited Franklin D. Roosevelt was chosen as the Democratic Party’s candidate for president in 1932 because he thought Roosevelt was the weakest of the Democratic contenders.
William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert Hoover (New York: Times Books, 2009), 138. |
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