... which have left and amazing impact on all the people of our nation. The style of each speech reflects the occasion for which it was written. Abraham Lincoln delivered "The Gettysburg Address", one of his greatest speeches, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863. Lincoln speaks of the civil war in his speech. He talks about how the young men and women devoted their lives to ... . Lincoln was trying to be a very peaceful man asking the people not to forget those who have passed away for us and to acknowledge what they have done for us and to keep their spirits alive ...

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... Anderson, L.A. Times Jan.16, 2003 In March l961, less than two months after assuming office, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925 which established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Its mission was to end discrimination in employment by the government and its contractors. "Affirmative action was created to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are ... designed to give ethnic minorities a better opportunity in a white dominated world the issue has become a beacon for any group discriminated against on the basis of gender, age or...

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... . There have been problems in the Middle East since the times of the bible. America can not send troops over to the Middle East and expect to solve problems that have thousands of years of history. The American government feels like it is their responsibility to have troops in foreign countries at all times. Back in January of 1984 Senator John Tower said, "Withdraw of American ... Nations, so why is there American troops in Lebanon and not U.N. soldiers. The reason the U.N. was started was to have an ordered body of countries to take care of military problems that would arise. The Unite...

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... something that spanned political, historical and religious backgrounds and tapped into the heart of the American attitude most recently seen in Obama's election victory speech of "yes we can".1 Despite this, the president recently appeared to be hesitant to proclaim views of support for exceptionalism. Asked by a reporter in Strasbourg, France, whether he subscribed, as his ... John Lemza explains; 'The presence of the "Little Americas" would serve as a grass-roots vehicle to win the hearts and minds of the German people by conveying to them the tenets of democracy and the American ...

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... and his supporters introduced a new bill to Congress to extend the Bank of United States charter Jackson quickly vetoed the bill. By interdicting the bill, Jackson saved both the money in our pockets and impressed us with his attacks on the idea of monopolies and uncontrolled wealth. In the end Jackson truly worked hard for our benefit and for the good of us "common" Americans. Although Jackson wasn ... as his vice president. But due to a mishap with the electoral votes, John Quincy Adams was then elected, which was a great mistake. That's because Adams lacked political knowledge, and u...

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... were more of a nuisance then an actual crisis. A time when Blacks still rode at the back of the bus and drank from separate fountains. It was in this time on January 20, 1961 that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was officially inaugurated as the President of the United States. At the time of his inauguration JFK delivered an incredible speech in which he detailed his objectives as ... hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty." By stating his goals for the span of his presidency, Kennedy opened the eyes of American public, and everyone else i...

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... ran for the state senator of New York on the Democratic ticket, but no one thought he had much of a chance to win." The election was close, but Franklin came on top. In 1912, he helped Woodrow Wilson run for President and Wilson made FDR the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. "While FDR was Secretary of the Navy the Roosevelt's had two more children: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and John. In ... 1917, America entered WWI on the allies side and "Eleanor did a great deal of war work." (Graves 36) She spent days in ... talk to him. The next morning the papers were led by a big headline that an...

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... a Net phenomenon? He started poking his nose where others feared to tread-the White House. He broke the Kathleen Willey story: she was the reluctant witness for the Paula Jones defense team-a White House employee who was "comforted" by the president when she feared her husband might be in trouble. And Drudge certainly got the attention of the White House with his story. It obviously doesn't seem right to ... . It does not seem logical for the media to feel they have the right to publish the President's personal letters, such as the ones from Kathleen Willey: Dear Mr. President - You have...

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... Doud Eisenhower, and Doud Dwight Eisenhower. Doud was born in 1917 and John was born in 1923. Doud died when he was 4 years old in 1921. As far as I know John is still alive. John was an Ambassador to Belgum when he grew up. John went to a Military Academy. Dwight had a lot of character. He definitely was a leader. His personality was definitely an interesting ... one. He really liked sports; he played football on the school team at the military school. He really liked to lead people; he ... of N.A.T.O. by President Harry Truman. In 1952 Dwight was urged to run for President. He was a ...

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... of the Constitution and opposed the broad constructionist of Federalist presidents such as George Washington and John Adams. In the time frame of 1801-1817, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, both who were presidents of the time, exemplified their contradicting views and actions pertaining to the federalist and anti-federalist beliefs. Thomas Jefferson, and anti-federalist at heart, proved ... farmers living under a central government that exercised a minimum of control over their lives and served merely to protect the individual liberties granted by the Constitution. Jefferson, in his ...

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... three sons Hugh, Robert, and Andrew. At age 13 Andrew joined the local militia and served as a courier during the Revolutionary War. His brother Hugh went to fight in the Battle of Stono Ferry in 1779 and ended up dying fighting against the British. During this battle, Andrew and Robert were captured by the British while in captivity Robert Jackson caught smallpox later that year he ... a political base. In 1824 Jackson was nominated for president running against John Quincy Adams, Jackson was ahead in votes ended up losing the election, it's said that Adams paid his way through the ele...

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... a president himself. He became the 6th President of the United States in 1824. In 1830, more than a year-and-a half after he left the White House, he was elected to Congress. The time he spent in Congress was the most important and productive phase of his career. He preached against the pro-slavery motives of John Calhoun. He was, at heart, and abolitionist, but it was ... never officially acknowledged. In 1839, he presented a resolution to the House of Representatives concerning slavery. It stated ... for $1840 to take the Africans back to Freetown. The 35 surviving Africans and 4 missi...

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... of hatred toward Japanese-Americans! Many citizens and government officials were afraid that the Japanese citizens living on the West Coast would assist in the invasion of the United States of America (Gimlin 288). U.S. Lieutenant General John Dewitt was the head of security for the West Coast. John Dewitt felt people of Japanese heredity were a threat (Drexel 403). He greatly pressured President Roosevelt to sign ... : Granada, Colorado, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, Topaz, Utah, Poston and Gila Bend, Arizona, Tule Lake and Manzana, California, Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas, and Minidoka, Idah...

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... He stressed two themes---discontinue using the arms race and encourage economic development in Asia and Africa. By 1960, Stevenson's ideas were widely accepted. Although hesitant to engage in political competition, he gave into pressure and became a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but was defeated by the driven John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy appointed Stevenson ambassador to the United Nations in 1961, and Stevenson ... served in that post until his death. Even though he was ambassador, Stevenson played an inferior role in policy making under the Kennedy-Johnson administrati...

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... on the floor. Some members of the audience tried to chase him, but by time they started, Booth was already too far ahead. After some of the commotion subsided, Laura Keene, an actress, ran upstairs and helped Lincoln rest. Lincoln was unconscious, with his eyes closed and head bent forward. At first the thought was that Lincoln was shot in the heart, but then the people in the box ... with Lincoln saw a wound in the back of his head. When they found the bullet, they brought him to the house of Mr. William Peterson, a German tailor. In Mr. Peterson's house, Lincoln was placed on ... of ...

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... during Eisenhower's administration in 1954. He became known for the "Johnson Treatment- in which he leaned close in on a senator, towering over his prey, speaking softly and cajoling, flattering, even bribing, until he won the senator's vote. Unfortunately, his drive and ambition almost killed him. In mid-1955 he suffered a massive heart attack. Not yet fifty, he reassessed his life. He quit smoking, lost ... that he had gone as far in the senate as he ever would and turned his sights on the prize of prizes: the presidency of the United States. In 1952 and 1956, Johnson had tried but fa...

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... at home and abroad. In 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon filled in effectively for him until the president could resume his duties. The Eisenhower-Nixon ticket was reelected by another landslide in 1956. In the next few years Nixon traveled widely; in one trip to the USSR in 1959 he opened the American National Exhibition. There, in a model kitchen, he engaged in a debate with Nikita Khrushchev ... . His yeoman service to the party made Nixon the logical Republican choice to run for president in 1960. Campaigning against the Democratic nominee, John F. KENNEDY, Nixon s...

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... 's easily seen that Richard Nixon's promises of ending the Vietnam War was merely a ploy to get elected. The heart ache he caused Americans, the thousands of families who lost loved ones in the war, was needless. A President is supposed to serve the people of his country through honest and selfless decisions. Nixon wasn't selfless and his reason for keeping troops in Vietnam was merely a ridiculous effort ... seekers. Nixon's attempts to cover up the conspiracy would consume the first year of his presidency. On March 2, 1972 Nixon ordered White House counsel John Dean to make a report. De...

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... reform was supported by the then Democratic controlled Senate but it was strongly opposed by the Republican controlled House of Representatives the immense disagreement between the two conflicting sides ... work; she says a "rather than prioritizing the plight of all the unemployed Tennessee workers the president is putting ahead the interests of people who have broken our laws& ... into cities such as Boston and New York House Speaker John Boehner says that President Obama "is damaging the presidency" because he is attempting to bypass congress ... the first person applies for a work p...

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... mom, Mary Johnson, both worked hard to maintain the home by working for Casso's Inn, which was a popular inn and stable. There house was on the property of that inn. His mother was a weaver for the Casso's Inn, and his father Jacob was the inn's hostler and the janitor for the State Capitol. Andrew was the younger brother out of the two sons in the Johnson family. In 1812 Jacob Johnson saved two ... moved to Laurens, South Carolina so he would be even farther away from Raleigh. He only stayed in Laurens for about a year and then moved back to Raleigh and wanted to complete his apprentic...

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... early states, add that to the fact that he is a decorated war veteran John Kerry was the early frontrunner take home the right to go against President Bush in 2004. That was until Kerry had to take a hiatus from his campaigning to have prostate cancer surgery, in which time, Howard Dean stole the spotlight and the top-spot in the running for the Democratic candidacy. Recovering from this could ... he feels Bush's tax cut should not be repealed totally and is in favor of giving Bush the authority to wage war. A strong point of Kerry's is his military accomplishments, earning a Bronze Sta...

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... commercial treaties, and they wanted a three-fourths majority of all the members of both Houses for making treaties that involved issues of territorial or navigational rights. John Jay and his colleges enthusiastically approved of the joint responsibility vested by the constitution in the President and the Senate having a hand in foreign affairs. Jay believed that the members of the lower house of Congress held office too temporarily and was too ... at heart. It was Pierce Butler from South Caroline, who had been a member of the Brearly committee, argued that the President's treat makin...

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... February 6th, 1911 in a small apartment above a bank in Tampico, Ill. His father, John Reagan, was a Roman Catholic born in Ireland while his wife, Nelle Reagan, was a protestant of Scottish-English ancestry. At the age of nine, Reagan's family moved and settled in Dixon, Ill. where Ronald became known for his exploits as a lifeguard. He spent many summers as a lifeguard at Rock River ... -election. Ronald Reagan's eight years as governor of California brought home to him the difference between the words he had spoken over the years and what could actually be accomplished once in office....

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... was how to elect a president in a nation that "believed , under the influence of such British political thinkers are Henry St John Bolingbroke, that political parties were mischievous if not downright evil, and felt that gentlemen should not campaign for public office (The saying was "The office should seek the man, the man should not seek the office.") (Kimberling)." This is completely true in a sense of what Americans believe ... 's electoral votes being the number of its Senators plus the number of its Representatives). To abolish the Electoral College in favor of a nationwide popular...

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