THE FOUNDATION "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens." Thomas Jefferson (1813) Fellow Patriots, this day in history is full of American achievements. In 1958, we launched our first satellite, Explorer I, into space. In 1961, we sent the first.
THE FOUNDATION "Wish not so much to live long as to live well." Benjamin Franklin (1746) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1861, after months of grueling work to extend telegraph wire from Carson City, Nevada, to Omaha, Nebraska, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from San.