keyboardistDied: September 15, 2008Best Known as: keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd Deathplace: London, England Richard Wright was one of the founding…
politician, law professorBorn: 7/10/1933Birthplace: Michigan City, Ind.
Hatcher was elected mayor of Gary, Ind., in 1967, and he remained in office for the next 20 years. A Democrat, he was…
Richard Gordon KleindienstU.S. attorney generalBorn: 8/5/1923 President Nixon's attorney general who served for one year during the Watergate scandal. When he learned of the break-in shortly after…
merchantBorn: 12/7/1863Birthplace: Stewartville, Minn. Though the Sears family had been wealthy, his father lost the family fortune through speculative investments. Upon his father's death, young…
physicianBorn: 1904Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C., Drew earned advanced degrees in medicine and surgery from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, in 1933 and from Columbia…
Born: 1/9/1913Birthplace: Yorba Linda, Calif. Richard Milhous Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, Calif., on Jan. 9, 1913, to Midwestern-bred parents, Francis A. and Hannah Milhous Nixon, who raised…
director, actorBorn: 8/29/1923Birthplace: Cambridge, England Academy Award-winning director and actor best known for his sweeping biopics, including Gandhi (1982) Cry Freedom (1987) and Elizabeth (…
An explanation of the power to pardon granted to U.S. presidents by the Constitution
by Mark Hughes
President Gerald Ford testifying before the House Judicial Committee about his pardoning of…