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- 611: Thomas Paine
- ... though, one hundred-thousand copies were sold in three months. He made up many peoples' minds during the Revolution for what they were fighting for. He continued to publish a series of pamphlets called the Crisis which was published from 1776-83. Paine died on June 8, 1809. He was living in poverty. He wasn't as famous and well-known as he had been before because of some criticism he ...
- 612: Herbert Hoover
- ... Historians (1990); Hoover, Herbert, Addresses upon the American Road, 8 vols. (1936-61), and The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 3 vols. (1951-52); Huthmacher, J. Joseph, and Sussman, Warren I., eds., Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Capitalism (1973); Lyons, Eugene, Herbert Hoover, a Biography (1964); Nash, G. H., The Life of Herbert Hoover, 2 vols. (1983-88); Smith, Gene, The Shattered Dream: Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1984 ...
- 613: Abraham Lincoln
- ... to keep slavery out of the territories despite the Supreme Court's denial of their right to do so. Although Lincoln lost the election to Douglas, the debates won him national recognition. Election and Secession Crisis In 1860 the Republicans, anxious to attract as many different factions as possible, nominated Lincoln for the presidency on a platform of slavery restriction, internal improvements, homesteads, and tariff reform. In a campaign against Douglas ...
- 614: John F. Kennedy
- ... neither "warmongers" nor "appeasers," neither "hard" nor soft." We are Americans" (Sorensen 511) The President faced many crisises whether domestic or foreign. He was forced to deal with the escalating Cold War, the Cuban Missle Crisis, Civil Rights, Recession and Inflation. With each issue he faced he responded with dilligence, careful thought and decisive action. Throught every scenario he faced from election to the Senate to the Presidential campaign he was ...
- 615: Richard Nixon
- ... the bombing of North Vietnam and to increase US military involvement. Nixon campaigned against the war, and brought US soldiers back home. He developed the Nixon doctrine, stating that the United States would continue helping Asian nations combat Communism, but would no longer commit US troops to land wars in Asia. However, in 1970, Nixon expanded the war by allowing an invasion and several bombing missions. Into the second half of ...
- 616: Trudeau: The Politics of My Way
- ... Canadian journalism insist he is. In secular life Trudeau is no trinitarian; he has chosen his oneness because, from the earliest politics, oneness worked for him so spectacular. Trudeau's personal handling of the constriction crisis was a "my way" all the way. Trudeau, the self-proclaimed socialist prophet of his people, waxed ever so eloquently against the sins of conscription, and yet Trudeau seemingly could not see in War measures ...
- 617: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- ... how" and "why" the executive branch of the country should be functioning in the eyes of Pierre Trudeau. Although recognized as nothing more than a political activist at the time of the ongoing political/social crisis in Canada, Trudeau served as an adviser to the Privy Council Office in 1950 and subsequently became a professor of Law at the University of Montreal in 1960. His inauguration into the Federal Liberal Party ...
- 618: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... an organized campaign of noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He declared he would go to jail even die before obeying anti-Asian Law. Gandhi was arrested, but the British were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the complete boycott of British goods, was made a result of Gandhi's self-ruling movement. The ...
- 619: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... University of Mississippi. In Cuba both the Bay of Pigs occurred, in which U.S. supported rebels revolted in a poorly laid out plan of events that fell out beneath them, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the Soviet Republic were building missile silos in Cuba, 100 miles away from Florida. The Space Race was in full force with both Russia and the U.S. in competition to reach the ...
- 620: James A. Garfield
- ... and Edward. James Garfield was an advocate for free-soil principles and soon became a supporter of the newly organized Republican Party. And in 1859, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature. During the succession crisis, he advocated coercing the seceding states back into the Union. During the Civil War, he helped to recruit the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and became the infantry's colonel. He fought at Shiloh in April ...
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