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President Bush attends the 2006 President's Dinner at the Washington Convention Center during the evening. [181] June 21 – President Bush speaks at a press conference during the 2006 U.S.-EU Summit in Zeremoniensaal Hall of Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria during the afternoon. [182]
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with their own administration. [10] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on ...
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
This electoral calendar 2006 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2006 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states and their dependent territories. Referendums are included, although they are not elections.
2004 — Former President Ronald Reagan dies from complications resulting from Alzheimer's disease. He lies in state at the U.S. Capitol building before being interred. 2004 — George W. Bush is re-elected president, Dick Cheney is re-elected vice president. January 20, 2005 — President Bush and Vice President Cheney begin their second terms.
December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th president of the United States (b. 1913) December 29 – Red Wolf, American bucking bull (b. 1988) December 30 – Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003 (b. 1937) December 31 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922)
December 18 – President Bush delivers remarks during a visit to Little Sisters of the Poor in Washington, D.C. [184] December 19 – Press Secretary Dana Perino says President Bush and Vice President Cheney were in the West Wing of the White House during the Eisenhower Executive Office Building's fire during a press briefing. [185]
January 20, 2005 — President George W. Bush began his second term.; November 7, 2006 — California Representative Nancy Pelosi and Nevada Senator Harry Reid led the Democratic Party in taking control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections, the first time in 12 years the Democrats secure control of both houses of Congress simultaneously.