... her. He closed "I"m asking you to please look into your heart and at least give me the chance, with this historical deed, to gain your respect and love. I love you forever, John Hinckley." He dated it and marked the time at 12:45 p.m. Reagan was making an appearance at the Hilton hotel just down the street from Hinckley's apartment. It was a cold and rainy ... McCarthy, a Secret Service agent, in the stomach while he was providing a human shield- the fifth bullet hit the limousine window which saved Reagan's life because it was bulletproof- and the final round ricocheted off the back bump...

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... 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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... twenty-one, John Muir worked on his father's farm as an un-paid worker. At twenty-two he left home to exhibit his mechanical inventions at the State Fair in Madison, Wisconsin. There he received his first public recognition for his inventions by Wisconsin State Journal. His most well known invention was the study desk that retrieved a book, held it in place for the given period of ... , as well as with President Cleveland and President Roosevelt. President Cleveland was moved into action after reading John Muir's publications. John Muir was an extraordinary writer because the words he pu...

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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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... of the power by the Supreme Court in favor of the national government. In both of these examples, the Supreme Court wrongly interpreted the Constitution, gave too much power to the national government, and brazenly ignored the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution. This Amendment states that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people ... created this Union in the first place. John Marshall, as the Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, was able to dictate the d...

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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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... wants to do. He needs to have a vision of the future he wishes to create. This is the function of thinking. But a vision is worth little if he doesn't have the character, courage, and heart to see it through. When we think of Ronald Reagan ... lighting. Reagan is always described as genial and easygoing, some would call him "warmly ruthless." He would do in the nicest way possible what had to be done. He was as nice as he could be about it, but he ... from him to swim every day against the tide. And for everyone else, including the old, Reagan's memory is held high and he is deeply res...

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... Baines Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States of America aboard the Presidential plane by federal judge (11) Sarah T. Hughes of the northern district of Texas. John F. Kennedy appointed her to the judge ship in October 1961. The ceremony was delayed five minutes for the arrival of Mrs. Kennedy. It took place in the private Presidential cabin in the rear of the plane. About twenty five to thirty people ... arrived, Dr. Kemp Clark said, "the president lost his heart action by the electrocardiogram. " (21) A closed chest cardiograph massage was attempted, as were other emer...

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... Tennessee was separated from North Carolina and admitted to the Union as the sixteenth state. The next year in 1796 Tennessee legislature elected him a U.S. senator. For one session he held his senatorial seat before resigning to go home and serve sex years as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Jackson always has a place in his heart for the military and in 1802 was elected major general of ... of his opponents. In 1833 Harvard College conferred an honorary degree on President Jackson. Much to the disapproval of Harvard alumnus, John Quincy Adams, who called Jackson "a barbarian who...

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... and eventually married his first wife Vivian Buster Burey, after graduation Thurgood went to the prominent Howard Law School in Washington D.C. Charles Huston, who later helped shape and mold Thurgood's knowledge of the United States Constitution, ran the law school. By 1934 Thurgood begins work for The NAACP. In 1935 Thurgood and his friend and mentor Charles Huston won their first ... to his favorite professor sociologist Robert M. Labaree. Labaree told Thurgood fighting segregation is a must and the faculty should be integrated. When the decision on the integration of the faculty came ...

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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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... 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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... 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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