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Defend America on Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:29:52 PM
November 5,
1862
Lincoln removes McClellan
A
tortured relationship ends when President Lincoln removes General
George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan
ably built the army in the early stages of the war but was a sluggish
and paranoid field commander who seemed unable to muster the courage to
aggressively engage General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2377
November 5, 1912
Wilson wins landslide victory
Democrat
Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th president of the United States, with
Thomas R. Marshall as vice president. In a landslide Democratic
victory, Wilson won 435 electoral votes against the eight won by
Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and the 88 won by Progressive
Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt. The presidential election was the
only one in American history in which two former presidents were
defeated by another candidate.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5497
November 5,
1940
FDR re-elected president
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6371
November 5,
1968
Richard Nixon elected president
Winning
one of the closest elections in U.S. history, Republican challenger
Richard Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Because of the
strong showing of third-party candidate George Wallace, neither Nixon
nor Humphrey received more than 50 percent of the popular vote; Nixon
beat Humphrey by less than 500,000 votes.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2475
1998 - In the
U.S.,
Chairman Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee asked President Clinton
to answer 81 questions for the House impeachment inquiry.