On this day in the American presidency, vice presidency and cabinet, July 11: • 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Mass. According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., JQA was one of the founding fathers -- a remarkable feat considering he was 9 when the Declaration of Independence was signed. • 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. • 1952, the Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president. • 2003, President George W. Bush put responsibility squarely on the CIA for his disputed claim that Iraq had tried to acquire nuclear material from Africa, prompting Director George Tenet to publicly accept full blame for the miscue. • 2012, Unflinching before a skeptical NAACP crowd in Houston, Republican Mitt Romney declared he’d do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. • 2012, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than five decades.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:28:27 +0000
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