... of the National Association of Evangelicals. Other times the initiative is introduced in a setting very much like the State of the Union Address, like in 1973, when Nixon gave three separate speeches to a joint session of Congress on the administration's efforts to deal with the energy crisis. Sometimes the president will not expend the energy, resources, or political capital to initiate ... a piece of legislation, instead using cabinet officials or other high placed executive officials to champion the cause. Such was the case when Carter's Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland introduced ...

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... let racial discrimination continue. The next legislative step for ending discrimination was the Supreme Court Case, Brown v. Board of Education. This Supreme Court case said that the old policy of "separate but equal" public schools was illegal, as it never brought equality to the blacks. Although the courts called for integration of public schools, it took at least a decade for desegregation ... , and in many places it still hasn't. The next step along the legislative process towards equality occurred in 1956, when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on local bus lines. This piece of...

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... lacked greatly in values. Another is Linden Johnson who stole votes, accepted bribes, and betrayed many people. Yet he was the father of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, "the greatest piece of moral good to come out of Congress in 100 years." Although these presidents accomplished important things their values and morals indirectly affected their actions. Maybe if their morals were ... are accepting the responsibility to honor the values of our nation in your personal as well as public life. To accept a leadership position and expect to hold yourself to two separate standards is wrong," state...

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