John Adams
Construction began when the first cornerstone was laid in October of 1792. Although President Washington oversaw the construction of the house, he never lived in it. It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife Abigail, moved in.
The best answer to this question is Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt came to office with a whole host of ideas about how to fight the Great Depression only to have the Supreme Court strike many of those downs.
FDR kept trying and was eventually successful.
He believed that the Arabic Numeral System was more efficient than the Roman Numeral System.
He also believed that his system, named the Fibonacci Sequence, occurred throughout nature in processes like evolution and even the distances of the planets from the sun (which is crazy). There's still debate on whether it really applies or not, but the number of things things people have found that do work is immense.
He wanted African Americans to be free from slavery. So, if he made a petition he thought it would help out. (There's always different answers)
I believe that it is Britain and Spain.
