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wishes to send to the United States Congress. Formed in 1865, it is one of the oldest offices in the Executive Office of the President of the United States

roles in the postwar world: the mission in San Francisco assisted participants in the meeting that established the United Nations, the mission in Europe

Secret Service was later established on July 5, 1865, in Washington, D.C.[citation needed] Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury

returns in 1919. Income tax raised much of the money required to finance the war effort; in 1918 a new Revenue Act established a top tax rate of 77%. In 1919

changed the former Veterans' Administration, an independent government agency established in 1930 into a Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. It

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act PL 117-58 In the latest Center for Effective Government analysis of 15 federal agencies which receive the most Freedom of Information

$97 billion in 1997 and $153 billion in 2007. Its per-capita real gross domestic product (GDP) in chained 2000 dollars was $26,772 in 1997 and $28,894 in 2007;

expedition's map, located in the Las Vegas area John C. Frémont set up camp in Las Vegas Springs in 1844. In 1847, Mormons established the State of Deseret

of the oldest federal agencies in the U.S., with roots tracing back to the Committee on Indian Affairs established by Congress in 1775. First headed by

of government not delegated to the federal government. Consequently, each of the 50 states reserves the right to organize its individual government in

by Alexander Gardner in Washington DC.jpg The Secretary to the President is a long-standing position in the United States government, known by many different

increasing in frequency. Since 2001, the government has asserted the privilege in more cases and at earlier stages of the litigation, thus in some instances

illicit crops in Mexico in cooperation with local authorities. The separate Air Wing was established in 1986 as use of aviation assets grew in the war on

By the year 1933, the department was well established in Washington and very well known in rural America. In the agricultural field the picture was different

charter issued by the federal government. Approved banks would purchase U.S. government bonds, generating cash flow for the government. The bonds would then be

federal government have provided the president with administrative support for the exercise of executive clemency. A presidential order in 1865 formally

project, and in 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the group and established the framework for judicial review of government agencies in the landmark

some of their land in the Mississippi Valley to the U.S. in 1832 in the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty and sold their remaining land in Iowa in 1842, most of them

Medal, established in 1893, is awarded for important contributions to the understanding of the physical environment. The Henry Medal, established in 1878

12 Government, Intelligence in the Civil War. Washington, D.C., Central Intelligence Agency, 2005. Theoharis, Athan G.; Rosenfeld, Susan (1999) (in en)