Do it: 1  Place an exercise ball between the wall and the curve of your lower back. 2  Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. 3  Bend your knees and lower 5 to 10 inches, keeping your shoulders level and your hips square. Hold this position for 3 seconds and then stand back up.  Start with 5 reps and work up to 12.
Defiantly President Nixon proclaimed, âPeople have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, Iâm not a crook.â A few months later he would become the first and only president to resign from office. Not everyone believed Nixonâs declaration.
1 October 7 â The United States invades Afghanistan, accompanied by other nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom. 2  October 9 â The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as contaminated letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to U.S. Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. 2  January 22 â 24 â The  Texas Seven , a group of convicts who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit in Texas, are found in Colorado.