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- 301: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... for Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy 4. Nixon's Second Administration A. Reelection B. Watergate A few weeks after the United States entered World War II a young man named Richard Nixon went to Washington, D.C. In January 1942 he took a job with the Office of Price Administration. Two months later he applied for a Navy commission, and in September 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade ... became secretary of the treasury; Melvin R. Laird, the secretary of defense. Clifford M. Hardin was named the new secretary of agriculture; Walter J. Hickel, secretary of the interior; Maurice H. Stans, secretary of commerce; George P. Shultz, secretary of labor; John A. Volpe, secretary of transportation. Robert H. Finch was designated to head the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; George Romney, Housing and Urban Development. John N. Mitchell was appointed attorney general; Winton M. Blount, postmaster general. The first changes in the original Cabinet were made in mid-1970. Elliot L. Richardson replaced Finch. ...
- 302: The Bush Administration's Relation With Iraq Prior to Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait: Credibility and Misperception
- ... Vietnam. For a decade during the Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hussein's Iraq had enjoyed US and Western military, political and economic support, including $ 1.5 billion of sales approved by the U.S. government. George Bush had been a key figure in the Reagan Administration's support for Iraq. After the conclusion of Iraq's war with Iran and the accession of George Bush to the American presidency, US policy towards Iraq became increasingly confusing at best and/or the product of a downright Machiavellian strategy to deceive Iraq and set a trap for Hussein. In March 1990 ... U.S. Bungled Chance to Oust Hussein, Report Says" (IHT May 4-5,l991). According to a belated U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff report, rebellious Iraqi military officers had sent out feelers asking Washington for support for a coup against Saddam Hussein. However, the Bush adminstration rebuffed them, and they desisted. The [forced?] resignation and the testimony to Congress of former Undersecretary of Commerce for Export Administration Dennis ...
- 303: The Permanent Campaign
- ... January 1997. Norman Ornstein is regarded as one of our nation s foremost experts on Congress. Mr. Ornstein received a Ph.D.. from the University of Michigan, he writes for the NewYork Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and he has a regular column in Roll Call newspaper called Congress Inside Out . Mr. Ornstein is also an election analyst for CBS and appears frequently on television shows including the Today Show, Nightline ... time to sit down and talk about the core principles and function of journalism. The Article The Permanent Campaign takes a look at the way the American political system has evolved over the years. When George Washington was president he did not campaign any before he was put in office. When he was in office he only made a few public appearances and when he did he didn t speak a ...
- 304: Ulysses S. Grant
- By: Nick Coble Although Ulysses S. Grant's contemporaries placed him in the highest position of great Americans along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the twentieth century has seen him fade. His presidency has been almost universally condemned, and he is consistently ranked second to rock bottom Warren G. Harding in polls of historians to rate ... disputes mark not only foreign policy victories for the United States, but a significant precursor to the future course of international affairs. The establishment of the principle of the international arbitration through the Treaty of Washington, would later be embodied in the Hague Tribunal, the League of Nations, the World Court, and the United Nations. Grant's desire for peace was evident to me from the beginning of my research, ...
- 305: Shaping a Nation
- Shaping a Nation The United States of America is constantly changing. Each president makes changes that shape this country. Three presidents that made some of the most important contributions to our nations history were, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. They were involved in the three most important wars fought by the United States of America. George Washington was a great president who led this country to independence. He fought the British until they surrendered. The United States won the war. Furthermore, he appointed people to counsel him in making decisions ...
- 306: Important Presidential Electio
- ... Baines Johnson. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National ... active duty. Johnson continued to support Roosevelt's military and foreign-policy programs. In 1953 he won the job of Senate Democratic leader. The next year he was easily reelected as senator and returned to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. Barry Morris Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona on January 1, 1909, was the unsuccessful Republican presidential ... assassinated John F. Kennedy. It was a time of equality and civil rights, and many people liked and agreed with where he stood on these issues. 1988 The election of 1988 was a contest between George Bush, and Michael Dukakis. Bush was a Republican, while Dukakis was a Democrat. Born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush, daughter of a wealthy investor, and Prescott Sheldon Bush, ...
- 307: Battle Of Gettysburg 2
- ... not notice that General Mead s army was marching straight at him with about 82,000. Without any hesitation, Lee decided to push north in order to invade Pennsylvania from Maryland, threatening the Union capital, Washington DC. General A.P. Hill s corp were in bad conditions, most soldiers did not have any shoes, and so decided to invaded Gettysburg with the purpose of getting shoes. On Tuesday morning, June 30 ... given him the advantage of having the high ground. Hours later, General Lee said, If I had Stonewall Jackson at Gettysburg, I would have won that fight; and a complete victory would have given us Washington and Baltimore, if not Philadelphia, and would have established the independence of the Confederacy (Davis 299). After Ewell s unexpected decision, commanding General Longstreet decided that it was the right time to move around the Union s left. This movement would put them right between Washington and Mead. On July 2, 1863, General George Gordon Mead arrived at Gettysburg with most of the Union army. Mead positioned his army in the shape of a U , occupying Little Round Top, Big ...
- 308: Global Warming
- ... particular concern of scientists around the globe because they can lead to “changing shorelines” or even “the entire submergence of some island nations” (Newton 81). A personal anxiety of the United States is suggested by George J. Mitchell in the fact that five thousand to ten thousand square miles of United States’ dry land could go under the ocean sometime in the ensuing hundred years (88). Globally, the submergence of coastal ... and the world, into this mess, and there is nobody else around to get us out of it” (254). Works Cited Broeker, Wallace S. “Greenhouse Surprises.” The Challeng of Global Warming. Ed. Dean Edwin Abrahamson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1989. 196-209. Gay, Kathlyn. The Greenhouse Effect. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. “Global Warming.” Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1996. Great Decisions. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1990. Gribbin, John. Hothouse Earth. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. Hansen, James E. “The Greenhouse Effect: Impacts on Current Global Temperature and Regional Heat Waves.” The Challenge of Global Warming. Ed. Dean Edwin Abrahamson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1989. 35-44. Jaeger, Jill. “Developing Policies For Responding to Climate Change.” The Challenge of Global Warming.. Ed. Dean Edwin Abrahamson. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1989. 96-109. Lemonick, ...
- 309: UFO Crash Near Roswell, NM
- ... They all agreed the material was unlike anything they had ever seen. On July 6 Brazel drove into town with a few pieces of the wreck. He showed the material to the Chaves County Sheriff George Wilcox. The sheriff called the Roswell Army Air Field(AAF) and talked to Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer. After inspecting Brazel's material, Marcel reported to his commanding officer Colonel William "Butch" Blanchard, who ... asking for the relay to cease. Military police picked up the material that Brazel had left at the sheriffs office. The pieces were sent to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, then to Washington. Marcel and Cavitt didn't return to the base until early the next morning. That morning, Colonel Blanchard ordered for a press release to Frank Joyce at radio station KGFL. The report told that the Army had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer. General Clemence McMullen, in Washington, called Colonel Thomas DuBose under Eighth Air Force Commander General Roger Ramey, in Fort Worth. He ordered for a cover-up of the crashed saucer story and for some of the crash material to ...
- 310: Abraham Lincoln 2
- ... first official act was the appointment of John G. Nicolay as his private secretary. One month after he had taken office he got word that the 6th Massachusetts Infantry was on its way to defend Washington, which had been attacked by a Baltimore mob leaving thirteen people dead. In May of 1861 Tennessee, North Carolina, and Arkansas joined the Confederacy. The first important battle of the war takes place near Manassas along a sluggish creek called Bull Run, 20 miles southwest of Washington. The battle killed 847 people and more than 2,500 were wounded. Lincoln felt for the slaves and tried to do alot to help them out by signing a law giving freedom to slaves who ... but he needed help. The first to join him in the kidnapping were his old friends, Sam Arnold and Michael O Laughlin. He then added John Surratt to his team, whose mother was keeping a Washington boardinghouse. Then David Herold and George Atzerodt joined Booth in his quest to kidnap Lincoln. The most brutal to join Booth was Lewis Powell. Once Booth spoke a word of murdering Lincoln, Arnold and ...
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