Election year |
N° |
|
President |
R or D |
Vice-president |
Major events of the presidency |
2020
|
46
|
|
Joe Biden |
D
|
Kamala Harris
|
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
|
2016 |
45 |
|
Donald
Trump |
R |
Mike
Pence |
Plans to build a wall on the Mexican-American border, Boom of the economy, then collapse with Covid 19 |
2012 |
44 |
|
Barack Obama |
D |
Joe Biden |
? |
2008 |
Health care reform |
2004 |
43 |
|
George W. Bush |
R |
Dick Cheney |
Hurricane Katrina, Surge in Iraq |
2000 |
9/11, War in Afghanistan and Iraq |
1996 |
42 |
|
Bill Clinton |
D |
Al Gore |
Lewinsky scandal, boom of the U.S.
economy |
1992 |
Effort to create a national
healthcare system fails |
1988 |
41 |
|
George H. W. Bush |
R |
|
Operation "Desert Storm" against Iraq |
1984 |
40 |
|
Ronald Reagan |
R |
George H. W. Bush |
Iran-Contra Affair, end of the Cold
War |
1980 |
Neo-liberal economic policy, large,
across-the-board tax cuts |
1976 |
39 |
|
Jimmy Carter |
D |
|
Camp David agreement between Egypt
and Israel |