Today in history: Nixon goes to Moscow

He was the first sitting president to visit the Soviet capital

President Nixon meets Russian President Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow on May 31, 1972.
(Image credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

May 22, 1872: President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act, restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

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