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- 1631: Watergate Scandal
- ... work. He came back to that door about 2:00 a.m. that same shift and noticed that there had been a second taping. Once he found the second one he decided to phone the Washington D.C. police. An undercover officer named Sergeant Paul Leeper and officers John Barret and Carl Shoffler intercepted the call while on patrol. Flashlights were noticed by a former F.B.I. agent. The F ... Cubans was Bernard Barker who was a member of Dictator Batista's secret police. Then two young reporters by name of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernistein were assigned to cover the Watergate story for the Washington Post. They followed a lead they received about E. Howard Hunt's name being in to burglars notebooks and traced him back to the white house where he worked as a writer. On June 20 ...
- 1632: History After 1820
- ... Clay again proposed a compromise and Congress passed the Compromise of 1850 which stated four items: 1) California will join the Union as a free state, 2) no more slave auctions will be held in Washington, DC, 3) a new and harsher fugitive slave law will be passed, and 4) popular sovereignty will be used to determine free or slave states in the land ceded by Mexico. Popular sovereignty is the ... gave "a lot of proclamation with little emancipation. The Battle of Gettysburg, which took place during the time of July 1-3, 1863, was an accidental battle location, General Lee was actually planning to attack Washington. The battle came about when some Rebel soldiers sneaked into Gettysburg searching for some food, there they meet a couple of Union soldiers. They escape and within hours the two great armies form raging in ...
- 1633: The Industrial Revolution
- ... one that in which industry and manufacturing was in control. The Industrial revolution began in England in the middle of the 18th century (Burlingame 239). This was about the time the English throne passed from George II (1683-1760) to George III (1738-1820). It was in full swing at the time of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. England at the time was the most powerful empire on the planet. So, it was inevitable ...
- 1634: The Civil War
- ... were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an ... peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well ...
- 1635: Nixon's Program of Detente was the Reason for the Decline of World Conflict in the 1970's
- ... KMFDM, Cyberkatif, Prodigy, Type O Negative, Acid Horse, The KLF, and Pink Floyd Bibliography Bailey, Thomas A., The American Pageant. Lexington: DC Heath and Co., 1991 Barnett, A.Doak, A New US Policy Towards China. Washington DC: The Brookings Inst. 1971 Blum, Robert, The United States and China in World Affairs. New York: Hill Book Co. 1966 Nixon, Richard, US Foreign Policy for the 1970's. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1970 Scheer, Robert, America After Nixon. New York: Hill Book Co. 1974 Toledano, Ralph de, One Man Alone. New York: Funk & Wagnals. 1969
- 1636: The Watergate Complex
- ... like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1) "The Watergate Complex is a series of modern buildings with balconies that looks like filed down Shark's Teeth" (Gold, 1). Located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. it contains many hotel rooms and offices. What happened in the complex on June 17, 1972 early in the morning became a very historical event for our nation that no one will ever forget. The "Watergate Scandal and constitutional crisis that began on June 17, 1972 with the arrest of five burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DMC) headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. It ended with the registration of President Richard M. Nixon on August 9, 1974. (Watergate) At approximately 2:30 in the morning of June 17, 1972 five men were arrested at the Watergate ...
- 1637: Vietnam War Memorial - Powerful Granite
- ... to the thoughts of the beholder. People often find therapy in locating the name of a companion or a loved one. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is by far the most emotional moving war monument in Washington, and that alone makes it very unique(CollierΉs 138). In comparison with other monuments, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is vastly different. A point of comparison could be the Marine Corps War Memorial, otherwise known ... one could imply that the veterans were not sufficiently honored by the people of America. (Colliers 139-140) It is clear that the erection of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was a wonderful addition to the Washington Mall of monuments. There is some disagreement as to the exact meaning of the monument, but that is because in was designed for that very purpose. Maya Lin was quoted to say that she wanted ...
- 1638: The Civil War
- ... were a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an ... peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well ...
- 1639: The Progressive Era
- ... unskilled jobs. Blacks on the other hand made great strides during the Progressive era. Blacks wanted to be equal and lift them selves up in their own way instead of conforming to white society as Washington suggested. They marched on Washington and demanded the unrestricted right to vote as well as an end to all forms of segregation, equality of economic opportunity, higher education, equal justice in courts and an end to trade union discrimination. These ...
- 1640: The Watergate Affair
- ... of the news media coverage will focus on the Watergate affair which originally began on June 17, 1972 with the break-in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the prestigious Watergate office complex in Washington D.C.. I will primarily concentrate on the negative impact that media coverage had to the publics eye. This media coverage, although justified and appropriate for the situation, ultimately destroyed the credibility of Nixon's ... the midst of a curious non-cooperation from the White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the suspicion grew that someone not far from the center of Republican power in Washington had engineered the Watergate Caper. (Watergate, Contd., TIME Magazine, August 14, 1972, page 21) As time went on, more and more evidence had begun to surface. On September 15, 1972, the Justice Department obtained the ...
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