Richard Nixon's use of the 'madman theory' included threats to use nuclear weapons against North Vietnam.

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Adam Hamilton's November 2026 victory marked the first time a Democrat won a US Senate seat in Kansas since 1932

James Talarico became the first Democrat to win a US Senate seat in Texas since 1988

Midterm elections in 1998 under Bill Clinton and 2002 under George W. Bush were the only instances since 1946 where the president's party gained seats

Since 1946, the political party of the incumbent US president has lost an average of 26 seats in midterm elections

The Republican Party under President Dwight D. Eisenhower lost 50 seats in the 1958 midterm elections

The Democratic Party under President Harry Truman lost 56 seats in the 1946 midterm elections

In 2005 and 2006, an unknown red substance marketed as Red Dragon or Delta-9 was falsely distributed in Denver as opium

The Texas legislature removed Sam Houston from the governorship on the eve of the Civil War after Houston refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy

Congress passed retroactive legislation signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 formally confirming Ohio's statehood back to 1803

In the 1974 post-Watergate midterm elections, Democrats won a massive landslide across congressional races

State constitutional Blaine amendments originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to prohibit the use of public funds for religious schools

The Stanford Research Institute spun off from Stanford University to become SRI International following campus protests over United States Department of Defense contracts during the Vietnam War

Following World War II, the United States established a standing armaments industry utilizing private corporations rather than relying solely on government-run arsenals

In 1947, freshmen congressmen John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon traveled to Pennsylvania to conduct a joint public debate

John F. Kennedy's 1961 presidential inaugural address consisted of approximately 1,360 words as delivered

Ted Sorensen served as John F. Kennedy's primary speechwriter for the 1961 presidential inaugural address

Following their 1947 debate in Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a train sleeper car on their trip back to Washington, D.C.

John F. Kennedy almost won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the 1956 Democratic National Convention

John F. Kennedy served in the military during World War II

John F. Kennedy delivered his presidential inaugural address in January 1961