• Facts about John Glenn He was a Marine aviator and flew combat missions during WWII and the Korean War He nicknamed his Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 During the Friendship 7 flight in 1962, there was a failure of the automatic control system and he had to switch to manual control during the second and third orbits and during re-entry He was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served 4 terms until his retirement in 1999 In 1998, in his fourth and final term as a U.S.

Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States when he succeeded to that office following the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. He served as President until 1977, when he was succeeded by President Jimmy Carter. Previously, Ford represented Michigan’s 5th District in the House of Representatives beginning in 1949 until his nomination to the Vice Presidency by President Nixon in 1973, following the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

She was laid to rest beside her husband at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on March 11, 2016. Remembering Nancy Reagan 162 Cong. Rec. S1314, March 7, 2016, Congressional Record PDF Details Presidential Proclamation on the Death of Nancy Reagan 81 FR 12787, March 7, 2016, Federal Register PDF Details Images Nancy Reagan attending the presidents' summit for America’s future, with former Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush, in Philadelphia, PA, April 28.

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. was the 39th President of the United States (1977-1981) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

On February 3, 1995, Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the STS-114 Discovery to the Russian Mir space station. On July 23, 1999, she became the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission, the STS-93 Columbia. This mission carried the newest telescope since the Hubble, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which captured images in deep space.

S12287 PDF Details September 14, 2001 - Remarks following 9/11, 147 Cong. Rec. S9413 PDF Details March 20, 2003 - Remarks the day the Iraq War began, 149 Cong. Rec. S4075 PDF Details July 7, 2009 - Remarks about Health Care, 155 Cong. Rec. S7158 PDF Details March 14, 2013 - Senator's tribute to John McCain on the 40th anniversary of his release as a prisoner of war from the Vietnamese, 159 Cong. Rec. S1828 PDF Details July 31, 2014 - Speech on the 50th Anniversary of Everett Alvarez’s Captivity in Vietnam, 160 Cong.

News March 16, 2017 - GPO makes President Trump's Budget Blueprint Available on govinfo The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) makes available President Donald Trump’s America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again on GPO’s govinfo.

President Trump delivered an address (PDF) on February 28, 2017, to a Joint Session of the House and Senate. The President's remarks as printed in the Congressional Record are available on govinfo along with other related documents:

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