In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... When Richard Nixon took over the White House, a majority of Americans thought the war was a mistake. ... The Nixon administration struggled with the media, protests, and anti-war sentiments until the end of the war, though the movement did eventually lose steam, according to Small. Melvin Small&#x...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... For all his arguable faults and failings, Richard Nixon, given his strengths in compartmentalization, his capability of strategically dissecting the world by geopolitical relevancy, and his uncanny vision for analyzing the long-term outcomes produced from near-term events, made Nixon the right man and the right president at the right time. ... Détente, therefore, was implemented in earnest under Nixon precisely to lessen these tensions and bring about...

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Kennedy and Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon conveys the impact of the image on society and how it even changed the course of history. ... For the first four debates, Kennedy arrived looking young, well-groomed, and confident, while his opponent Nixon, who had recently been released from the hospital after spending two weeks recovering from a badly injured knee, appeared haggard and shaggy and was sporting a scruffy "five o'clock shadow" or light beard. Nixon then refused makeup which only accentuated his malnourished look and his wrinkled suit. According to the Museu...

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Affirmative Action in the Nixon Administration In 1969, when Richard Nixon took office, affirmative action was still poorly defined and not widely supported. It was under Nixon that the first official affirmative action program (the Philadelphia Plan) was put forward. The unemployment rate of young blacks was high, and Nixon believed that affirmative action could be part of the solution. ... As Nixon once affirmed, "We would not impose quotas, but would require federal contractors to show 'affirmative action' to meet the goals of increasing minority employment." ... Under the Ni...

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They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. ... Thus, during 1972 President Nixon flew to Peking, which later re-establish and re-open relationships between USA and China. ...

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Richard Nixon took full advantage, exercising the veto power extensively. ... Since the mishaps of Nixon's reign, congress has tightened control, at the expense of the presidents ability to lead with such previous effectiveness. ... Also, in 1973, congress proposed to subject the OMB director and deputy director to Senate confirmation, despite the disapproval of the Nixon administration, who insisted the senate scrutiny of appointees should not extend to the inner circle of presidential advisors. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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The vacated seat of Earl Warren led to the appointment of Warren Burger to the chief justice seat by Richard Nixon; one of four appointments that Nixon had the opportunity to make. As Nixon had hoped, the Burger court was far more conservative than the Warren court, yet they still handed down decisions which legalized abortion, legitimized school busing, and provided greater protection for women under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. ...

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Although many things divide them today, Communist and Nationalist Chinese agree in their admiration for Sun Yat-Sen, known as the father of modern China. He was born to a peasant family near Canton (Guangzhou) and educated in Hawaii, where he converted to Christianity. He returned to China and led a...

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Of all the blows to the Labor movement in the United States few have had the lasting impact and damage to the rights of working men as the Taft Hartley Act of 1947. Its passage represented a huge step backward for the movement that has never been fully recovered. No matter what the acts original in...

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These men included, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, Howard Phillips, Paul Laxalt, Taft Schreiber, Jules Stein, Henry Salvatori and Ronald Reagan. ... Weyrich also runs the Free Congress Foundation (FCF) which he founded with Richard Viguerie, an old friend from his days in Buckley's YAF. ... Richard Viguerie, who calls himself "politically Christian-, began his political career working for Buckley's YAF in Washington, D. ...

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The administration of Richard Nixon constituted a watershed in that it was the first to deal with the challenge posed by the increasing disequilibrium between America's international position and America's capacity to finance , efforts toward détente with the former Soviet Union, rapprochement with China, and the generation of additional resources through changes in its domestic and foreign economic policies. ...

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On the same day a declaration of independence from Britain was proposed to Congress by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, which was June 6, 1776, he also proposed "That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation." ...

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The possibility of the end of the Cold War for so long seemed out of the question. Because of the definition of the Soviet ideology which stated that war with the capitalist nations of the world was inevitable, peace was paradoxical. The Americans in a sense fostered the Soviet position by executing...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendous technological advances as well as, drastic social changes throughout the world and especially within the United States. The rivalry for global dominance immediately became, perhaps, the single most important factor determining the American, as well as, the global human experience and would remain...

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Is any cliché in American public discourse quite as stale as "liberal media bias-? Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? Not unless said person resides permanently in a wilderness beyond range of all TV, radio, newspaper delivery, and the U.S. Postal Service. ...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? -Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterpa...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ...

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