... issue in 1912 because of it's broad influence on social and political life in early twentieth century America, and all of the presidential candidates understood that organized wealth and business combinations were a pressing economic problem that had clear social and political effects outside the world of commerce. Also in the views of almost all participants in the election, monopoly was both ... what is wrong with the country. Debbs rejected anti trust laws. His rejection of these laws as "silly" and "puerile" followed Roosevelt's logic: If combinations were a necessary precondition f...

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... . Nixon offered to provide summaries of all the tapes, but his idea was rejected and he was again ordered to hand over the original tapes. Infuriated by the court's decision, he ordered his attorney general and his deputy attorney general to fire Cox. For their refusal to dismiss Cox, both ... , Leon Jaworski was appointed to take his place. The firing of Cox, however, did not work to Nixon's advantage. In April of 1974, Jaworski ordered Nixon to release the tape recordings and documents of 64 White House conversations. By the end of April, Nixon had released 1,254 pages of transcripts f...

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... . Nixon offered to provide summaries of all the tapes, but his idea was rejected and he was again ordered to hand over the original tapes. Infuriated by the court's decision, he ordered his attorney general and his deputy attorney general to fire Cox. For their refusal to dismiss Cox, both ... , Leon Jaworski was appointed to take his place. The firing of Cox, however, did not work to Nixon's advantage. In April of 1974, Jaworski ordered Nixon to release the tape recordings and documents of 64 White House conversations. By the end of April, Nixon had released 1,254 pages of transcripts fr...

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... . Nixon offered to provide summaries of all the tapes, but his idea was rejected and he was again ordered to hand over the original tapes. Infuriated by the court's decision, he ordered his attorney general and his deputy attorney general to fire Cox. For their refusal to dismiss Cox, both ... , Leon Jaworski was appointed to take his place. The firing of Cox, however, did not work to Nixon's advantage. In April of 1974, Jaworski ordered Nixon to release the tape recordings and documents of 64 White House conversations. By the end of April, Nixon had released 1,254 pages of transcripts fr...

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... longer commit United States troops to land wars in Asia. Nixon announced that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam by August1969. Another cut of 65,000 troops were ordered by the end of the year. The American's were still unhappy that the war wasn't over and protests continued. Nixon would continue to disappoint the American public when he expanded ... . The peace talks started looking promising when a breakthrough was achieved when the Communist side expressed acceptance of a peace plan. However, the talks quickly collapsed and on the next day Nixon ordered a massive attac...

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... into Beirut. President Bill Clinton did the same type of thing in 1998 when he ordered air strikes on Al Quida camps in Sudan. He ordered the strikes the same day that he was ordered in front of the Grand Jury for testimony. He is believed to have ordered the air strikes so the news would cover that more than his trial. These events ... ...

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... later in 1973 the testimony of the White House aide Alexander Butterfield uncovered the entire investigation. On national television Butterfield told the world that Nixon had ordered a video recording system to be installed in the White House to record all conversations. Nixon refused to release the tapes; he said they were vital ... the Democratic Party. After these events took place Nixon's popularity steadily eroded away. In August of 1974, three tapes disclosed that Nixon had ordered the FBI to stop investigating the Watergate break-in. The tapes also revealed that Nixon had aided i...

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... the doors of the island's sugar industry to US investors; In a few short years, over 90% of Cuba's sugar industry would belong to US corporations and investors. When President Roosevelt ordered the "liberation" of Panama, that country received the "Platt Amendment Treatment" as well, thereby also making it a US protectorate. Big Stick/Dollar Diplomacy Having firmly established itself as a world power ... in 1954, Pinochet revoked the reforms of the now-deceased president and installed himself as an absolute military dictator; for the next 17 years, Pinochet ruled Chile as a despot and o...

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... leading up to the attack suggest that the U.S. government knew of Villa's location and intentions. Just prior to the attack, Lieutenant George Patton, who was being stationed at Columbus, was ordered, along with the remaining officers, to leave for a polo match near Deming, New Mexico. Patton would later remark in his diary that he had never played the sport before. Also ... with Mexico. He got his chance when a small number of Americans where arrested in Mexican port of Tampico. Knowing that Wilson was looking for an exuse for war, Huerta immediately ordered the release of the American...

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... men arrested the night of the Watergate burglary along Howard Hunt pleaded guilty. James McCord was also tired with conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping (Halsey 332). The United States then ordered an investigation to begin. When Nixon got word of this he met with his top aides to plan responses and prepare for the investigations. The only person that would not ... . Officials concluded that someone had deliberately destroyed the evidence (Schudson 174). Evidence against Nixon, which was given to Judge Sirica by the grand jury, had begun the impeachment investigation. Sirica ord...

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... between the Jay Treaty and Great Britain. In 1807, during Aaron Burr's separate trial for treason, for the first time the Supreme Court decided the issue. President Thomas Jefferson was ordered by Chief Justice John Marshall to write a letter that might have acquitted the former vice president. The court established the Sixth Amendment right of necessary process did not excused the ... White House attorney Harriet Miers negated to respond to a congressional subpoena regarding the firing of some federal prosecutors alleged to be against the Bush administration policies. The U.S. Court of...

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... learning that we even had one). Johnson > was very involved in the bombing of N. Vietnam and even selected the targets personally. Reagan > sent troops to Lebanon & Granada in 1983 and ordered fighters to attack Libya in 1986. Bush > sent troops into Panama in 1989 and the Persian Gulf in 1991. Clinton > sent troops into Haiti in 1994 and Bosnia in 1995 ... . George W. Bush > ordered a preemptive invasion of Iraq on the basis that "the United States reserves the right to attack any nation or group that threatens to use weapons of mass destruction against ... ...

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... contacted Governor James Rhodes for assistance. On May second, the ROTC building at Kent State was burnt down during a protest. The next step was calling in the National Gaurd as ordered by the Governor. The national guard helped on campus by seeing that the new eleven o"clock p.m. curfew was followed by all students. This caused more anger among the students, and ... disperse the crowd. The conflict between students and the National Guard had begun to expand, and the cursing and rock throwing were increasing the tension in the air. The Guard ordered the students to retreat and as the c...

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... the year drew close. But despite his significant gains in foreign policy, Nixon was still confronted with the overwhelming daily chaos created by the Vietnam War. In 1972 he had ordered that Hanoi be bombed in retaliation for a North Vietnamese push into South Vietnam. But behind the scenes he was frantically trying to set up negotiations that would lead to a settlement ... as Nixon's knowledge on the activities and his participation in their cover up. In July 1973 White House aide Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a taping system that Nixon had ordered installed in the W...

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... was voted into office. Most of America liked Lincoln as a change from all the politicians they were used to. After Lincoln was elected president, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This ordered the release of all slaves who were not in previously set aside slave states. It went on to say that these released slaves would become normal citizens, having was slave ... him down on a sofa. Dr. Mudd examined Booth's leg and concluded that it was broken at about a 90-degree angle. Mudd fixed the wound as well as he could and ordered his white servant to make a crutch for Booth to use. Dr....

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... 's worries that Maryland would join Virginia in succeeding from the United States. If Maryland were to succeed Washington D.C. would be surrounded by the opposition. Due to the growing threat Lincoln ordered reserve troops from Pennsylvania to come and protect the capital. "In April of 1861, 20,000 confederate sympathizers gathered in Baltimore and attempted to stop Union troops from reaching Washington ... sent the writ to General Cadwalder of Fort McHenry demanding to bring Merryman before him, but Cadwalder declined to respond. When Taney did not hear back from the general he ordered ...

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... the federal government, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus has become known "Little Rock Crisis." When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine."" (Eisenhower Years) By protecting ... ...

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... the Subpoena's, arguing that the President can not be required to testify or present documents before Congress or the grand jury while he is in office (Ervin, 221). Judge Sirica ordered Nixon to produce the tapes for the grand jury (McNeely-Johnson, 265). Meanwhile, the Senate subpoena was struck down by Judge Sirika, first because the Senate tried to subpoena the ... Special Prosecutor to be independent (Ervin, 238). Nixon was furious and responded with what is now known as the "Saturday night massacre." That night, the 20th of October, the President ordered Attorney General Richardson...

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... he thought the bills that were passed had very little or no effect on the blacks that were located in the ghettos or in the rural poverty areas. As Johnson ordered bombing raids and sent small numbers of combat troops to Vietnam in August of 1964, he made the most fateful decision of his presidentency in July 1965. This was known ... , I am taking the first step to deescalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing-the present level of hostilities. And we are doing so unilaterally, and at once. Tonight, I have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on ...

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... Ferrer, and also the cook. Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz lives were spared because their help was needed in steering the ship. They put many ashore in the Caribbean, but ordered Montes and Ruiz to sail to Africa, their homeland. Montes steered the Amistad toward Africa but very slowly. At night, he reversed his course, and headed west to America. On ... from Africa was not. Judge Judson agreed, and ruled that the Africans had been kidnapped, and they had the right of escape, even if they had to use violence. He ordered that President Van Buren send these people back to their homeland and t...

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... . Haldeman and Ehrlichman resigned and Nixon appointed Elliot Richardson as new attorney general. Richardson hired Archibald Cox to investigate the case. He soon took Nixon to court, the President the ordered Richardson to fire Cox. When Richardson refused, he resigned and his deputy was fired. Cox was finally fired but his replacement was determined to get the tapes. Finally on April ... 30, 1974, Nixon released 1,254 pages of edited transcript. This was enough evidence to impeach the President but on July 24, 1974 he was ordered to release the tapes. On July 27, the House Judiciary app...

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... the excess money back to the taxpayers. One campaign promise Reagan kept was to clean up the mess at Berkeley. By confronting the violent demonstrations at that state university, he ordered the California Highway Patrol and later the National Guard to the Berkeley campus when riots broke out in 1969. But he did compromise on a proposed tuition on state university students ... and in 1982 a jury declared that Hinckley was insane at the time of the attempted assassination and therefore, found him not guilty of the attempted murder charge. A federal judge later ordered that Hinckley be pla...

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... and devoted time to business ventures and his plantation. At this time his political career looked over. In 1814 Jackson was a Major General in the Tennessee Militia, here he was ordered to march against the Creek Indians (who were pro-British in the war of 1812). His goal was achieved at Horseshoe Bend in March of 1814. Eventually he forced All ... of American strength made Americans feel proud after a war filled with military defeats. Jackson was given the nickname "Old Hickory", and was treated as a national hero. In 1817 he was ordered against the Seminole Indians. He pushed them ba...

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... Force Base. After the end of World War II, the lanes were not kept up and soon disappeared (Wallace 1997). During April of 1955, a test pilot for the government was ordered to find a place to test a new plane of the United States, the U-2 spy plane. The pilot decided on a spot on the south end of Groom Lake. Work soon started on ... runs and experiments. During the next year, there was also an expansion of restricted airspace around Area 51 (Cambell 1996). Also, area military radar facilities in the surrounding area were ordered not to report any unusual sightings of high performance ai...

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... not afford to pay medical bills. By 1975 the system 'expanded' to cover 'nearly' all workers (Markham). Several things changed when Ronald Reagan became president. In 1983 Reagan ordered social security benefits to be taxed and the retirement age was raised (Markham). Social Security is similar to an annuity. The government would pay a retired citizen from the time they ... ...

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