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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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CFIF U.S. Presidents Quiz Print
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, February 13 2020

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Take our 10-Question Quiz and test your knowledge of our nation’s chief executives.

(Answer key may be found at the bottom)

1. What is the name of the federal holiday that falls annually on the third Monday in February?

a. Presidents Day
b. Valentine’s Day
c. Washington/Lincoln Day
d. Washington’s Birthday


2. What was George Washington’s salary as President of the United States?

a. $  25,000
b. $  50,000
c. $  75,000
d. $100,000


3. Which one of the following U.S. Presidents is the first to have both served on an aircraft carrier and had one named after him?

a. John F. Kennedy
b. Ronald Reagan
c. George H.W. Bush
d. Harry S. Truman


4. What does the President swear to "preserve, protect and defend" when he takes the Oath of Office?

a. United States of America
b. American people
c. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
d. Constitution of the United States


5. Who was the only U.S. President to pay off the national debt?

a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Andrew Jackson
d. Ronald Reagan


6. When did the Secret Service assume full-time responsibility for the protection of the President of the United States?

a. 1776
b. 1789
c. 1865
d. 1902


7. Which U.S. President was the first to withhold documents requested by Congress, claiming “the disclosure of which would injure the public”?

a. George Washington
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Harry Truman
d. Richard Nixon


8. Which of the following was the first sitting U.S. President to have a child born in the White House?

a. John Adams
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Ulysses S. Grant
d. Grover Cleveland


9. Who was the first sitting U.S. President to travel via airplane?

a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. Herbert Hoover
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Woodrow Wilson


10. Who was the first U.S. President to spend Christmas in the White House?

a. George Washington
b. John Adams
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. James Madison

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Answers: 1(d); 2(a); 3(c); 4(d); 5(c); 6(d); 7(a); 8(d); 9(c); 10(b)

 

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