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- 2051: Richard M. Nixon
- ... that Nixon could play a major role in congress. Nixon was sworn into Congress on January 3, 1947. He requested to be assigned to the labor committee. It was through this committee that Nixon met John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and Nixon both had different ideas, but they respected each others opinions. Nixon was also assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In June 1948, he was reelected without opposition ... to promote a civil rights bill. On Nov. 25, 1957, President Eisenhower suffered a stroke, and again Nixon acted President. In 1960, Nixon was nominated to be the Republican candidate for President. His opponent was John F. Kennedy, to whom he lost in a close race. After his defeat, Richard and his family moved back to CA, where Nixon practiced law again for a short time. In 1962, he ran for ...
- 2052: Lester Pearson
- ... the UN general assembly. In 1957 he won the Nobel Peace prize. It was mainly for creating the UN emergency force which helped settle the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. When the Conservative Party under John Diefenbaker defeated The Liberals in 1957 Pearson was out of public office for the first time in nearly 30 years. In 1958 Pearson replace St. Laurent as head of the Liberal Party and became leader ... a good job and they also thought the Liberals would bring economic stability. Pearson's first move was to restore relations with US and Great Britain that Diefenbaker had destroyed. Pearson became good friends with John F. Kennedy while trying to resolve the nuclear weapons issue. One of Pearson's major moves was the Canada Pension Plan. The Canada Pension Plan was available to anyone with a job. It had to ...
- 2053: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- ... 87). At the second inaugural, Lincoln summed up his attitude in the famous phrase "with malice toward none, with charity for all." Lincoln publically announced his support for black suffrage. This act sparked, the evil, John Wilkes Booth to take action on which he had been plotting for an attack against the president. John Wilkes Booth was a prominent Shakespearean actor with militant Confederate sympathies. He believed that most Americans hated Lincoln so adamantly that they would hail his assassin as a national hero. He was aroused by the ...
- 2054: Eric Clapton
- ... famous 60s and 70s bands copied. Clapton left The Yardbirds when he felt the band strayed too far from their blues roots towards pop music. E.C. then joined British keyboardist, harmonica player, singer/songwriter John Mayall and his band, The Bluesbreakers to work on an album. Clapton, with the fresh, up and coming band, made a pure blues album that many blues fans consider to be his best. After the ... melodic perfection instead of technique. Eric Clapton revived his career in the early 90s with his best selling album ever, Unplugged. This purely acoustic album was the most blues oriented since he was back with John Mayall. It contained the top 40 hit "Tears in Heaven" that he wrote for his son who died falling out of a New York high rise. Eric's most recent album, "From The Cradle", is ...
- 2055: Susan Smith
- ... out thousands of volunteers to search through "over five hundred square miles for the children." The story later went national but there was still no sign of the children or the attacker. The town Sheriff, John Wells, with the help of an FBI computer system went after every lead that came in from psychics, crackpots and well-meaning citizens. Even helicopters with heat seeking devices were used to try and locate ... family. "The pressures were suddenly more than Susan could handle and she broke down under questioning and confessed after nine days." On November 3rd, she told police the location of the bodies. Divers went to John D Long Lake at 4:15pm on Thursday and they pulled the car from the mud. At 6:45pm it was confirmed that two bodies were found in the back seat. Mrs. Smith was arrested ...
- 2056: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... children. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting profession was despised at that time and even considered immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and ... prize, and his poem would have won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize money was meager, but one of the judges, novelist John P. Kennedy, took an interest in Poe and befriended him by helping him sell a story to the new Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. Poe joined the editorial staff of the magazine and soon became ...
- 2057: The Life of Booker T. Washington
- ... owners began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The only thing that was a problem to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington ... owners began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The only thing that was a problem to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington ...
- 2058: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James (1907), Elliott (1910), Franklin, Jr. (1914) and John (1916). Roosevelt was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. As a reward for his support, Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy ... Eleanor, and political confidant, Louis Howe, Roosevelt resumed his political career. In 1924 he nominated Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention, but Smith lost the nomination to John W. Davis. In 1928 Smith became the Democratic candidate for president and arranged for Roosevelt's nomination to succeed him as governor of New York. Smith lost the election to Herbert Hoover; but Roosevelt was ...
- 2059: J.P. Morgan
- ... is character. Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it
Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom (Sinclair XIII). With that line, John Pierpont Morgan ended his career in a show-stealing manner. Indeed, J.P. Morgan was a man of character; moreover, he was perhaps the greatest Wall Street banker of the decade. Unlike others who gained ... Morgan was also a great philanthropist. In his lifetime, he gave St. George's Church in New York a new rectory, parish house, and over $5 million toward the construction of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Boardman 130). As one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and president in 1904, he bought a fellow collector's collection of Chinese porcelains to donate to the museum ...
- 2060: Robert Boyle
- ... dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis, and together in 1660, they founded the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science. From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of science. For centuries scientists had been explaining the ...
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