President Trump said Friday that the U.S. military had conducted "one of the most power bombing raids" on Iran's Kharg Island, a vital oil hub for the country.
Then-President Richard Nixon addressed the nation from the Oval Office during the 1973 energy crisis. Fueled by the Yom Kippur War, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the Middle East banned the sale of oil to the U.S. and other countries, sharply raising gas prices for Americans as they faced their first fuel shortage since WWII.
