John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War took place during his presidency. In the spring of 1941, Kennedy volunteered for the U.S. Army, but was rejected, mainly because of his troublesome back. Nevertheless, in September of that year, the U.S. Navy accepted him. On August 2, 1943, Kennedy's boat, the PT-109, was taking part in a nighttime patrol near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. It was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy was thrown across the deck, injuring his already-troubled back. Still, Kennedy towed a wounded man three miles in the ocean, arriving at an island where his crew was rescued.

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981 – 1989). In his inaugural address, Reagan addressed the economic malaise he inherited, arguing: "Government is not the solution to our problems; Government is the problem." On January 20, 1981 while Reagan was delivering his inaugural address, just 30 minutes into his term, 52 American hostages, held by Iran for 444 days were set free.

Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793) and second Vice President (1797–1801), before becomming the 3rd President of the United States. Jefferson achieved distinction as an horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, and the founder of the University of Virginia. He was born in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia), on 13 April 1743.

William Jefferson Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a federal surplus. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States. Clinton left office with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-presidency rating among all the Presidents that came into office after World War II. Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
After his Presidency he created the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote and address international causes, such as treatment and prevention of HIV/ AIDS and global warming. Clinton was also very popular among African-Americans and made improving race relations a major theme of his presidency.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. Scholars rank Lincoln among the top three U.S. Presidents, with the average of those surveyed placing him at number one. Lincoln was known for appointing his political rivals to high positions in his cabinet to keep in line all factions of his party — and to let them battle each other and not combine against Lincoln. Lincoln preserved the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Documents That Made America Possible July 4th 1776, not a memory, the foundation of our country. Presidents come and go and most show great respect for these documents. We live now in a period where there is no respect, only the quest to ammass power. These sorry days will end and some future President will repair the damages done to the foundation of our freedoms. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights

Declaration of Independence President Abraham Lincoln succinctly explained the central importance of the Declaration to American history in his Gettysburg Address of 1863: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." The United States Declaration of Independence was an act of the Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared that the Thirteen Colonies were independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America and written chiefly by Thomas Jefferson.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.