While President Nixon was a big supporter of space exploration, it was President Kennedy who actually started federal funding to finance it. It could be said, Kennedy started the space race.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Kennedy established the US space program in a federal agency known as NASA‎.
President Dwight David Eisenhower did. He was the 34th president of the United States. I do not think he got much notice for it, as JFK did more missions with the program. JFK sent the first man on moon. At JKF's time, I think, there was more competition with the Soviets in the NASA program. But it is a stated fact that Eisenhower established it.
NASA, with the cooperation of the US Department of the Interior, initiated this program in 1967.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha was established when Theodore Roosevelt was President in 1908.
President Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the NASA Act in July of 1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded and began their operations on October 1st, 1958.
President Abraham Lincoln
NASA was established on July 29, 1958.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of NASA, which was formed out of the earlier NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). Guyford Stever, Wernher von Braun and Hugh Dryden were among the heads of the groups organized under NASA.
Congress (not the President) established the US Supreme Court with the Judiciary Act of 1789. President George Washington appointed the first justices to the Court in September 1789.
The US constitution makes the vice-president the immediate successor of the president and the 25th amendment provides a procedure for filling a vacancy in the position of vice-president. The US Congress established a succession list for emergency cases.