Powers of the President of the United States The amount of military detail handled personally by the President in wartime has varied dramatically. George Washington, the first U.S. president, firmly established military subordination under civilian authority. In 1794, Washington used his constitutional powers to assemble 12,000 militia to quell the Whiskey Rebellion—a conflict in western Pennsylvania involving armed farmers and distillers who refused to pay excise tax on spirits. According to historian Joseph Ellis, this was the "first and only time a sitting American president led troops in the field", though James Madison briefly took control of artillery units in defense of Washington D.C. during the War of
The Man Who Was Never Born The Man Who Was Never Born "The Man Who Was Never Born" (original title: "Cry of the Unborn") is an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show. It was first broadcast on October 28, 1963, during the first season. An astronaut returning to Earth is flung into the distant future, where he finds the mutated remnants of humanity living on a ruined Earth. Having accidentally travelled through time, astronaut Joseph Reardon lands on Earth in the year 2148 A.D. to find it a desolate realm. He meets Andro, a mutated human stricken with a disfiguring disease for which