... enjoy the frequent company of Edith Bolling Galt, the widow of a prominent businessman. Public opinion swung wildly against Wilson: Rumors flew that the nation's 28th president and his paramour had conspired to poison Wilson's wife. Eventually the couple wed and public opinion swung again, this time wildly in favor of President Wilson's new wife and marriage. When a stroke left Wilson partly ... of the Clinton presidency (yes, it is apparently more than simply staying out the way of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan). There are the mysterious rumors of the "right ­wing conspiracy...

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... area. Therefore they stopped at the farm of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd so he could tend to Booth's leg. Dr. Mudd was secretly part of the conspiracy and was to be hanged later. Booth and Herold were planning to stop at Dr. Mudd's farm even if Booth didn't have a broken leg. Herold ... arrest Dr. Mudd. Finally, Dr. Mudd admitted that he had met Booth a year back, in 1864, but did not mention any type of conspiracy. Mudd was arrested and taken back to Washington for further questioning. After Booth and Herold left Mudd's farm on April 15th, the Government lost track of ... them for ten days. No...

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... to Jaworski (Ervin, 246). On March 1, 1974 the grand jury finally released its long awaited indictments. The jury charged Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman with the conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstructing justice. The jury charged Mitchell and Haldeman with committing perjury in the Senate Watergate Committee, and Mitchell and Ehrlichman with perjury before the grand ... Oliver North: convicted of altering and destroying documents, accepting an illegal gratuity, and aiding and abetting in the obstruction of Congress; conviction reversed on appeal; 3. John Poindexter: convicted of...

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... which was that of Victor John Yannacone Jr., who had filed the original class action suit against the chemical companies in 1979. This suit alleged that the Veterans Agency had "conspired to disseminate false and misleading information" to veterans about risk of exposure to Agent Orange. The Veterans Agency, however, did maintain that there was no conclusive evidence to prove that ... ...

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... , D.C. It ended with the resignation (Aug. 9, 1974) of President Richard M. NIXON. The burglars and two co-plotters--G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt--were indicted (September 1972) on charges of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. Four months later, they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who was convinced that pertinent details had not been unveiled during ... prosecutor on November 1, continued to press for the tapes. On Mar. 1, 1974, a federal grand jury indicted seven men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and White Hous...

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... interpretation was seen as controversial, after the film was released more people than ever believed that there was some kind of conspiracy behind JFK's death, "By 1994 a time magazine survey found 70% of the American public believed in some kind of conspiracy connected to JFK's assassination." This shows that many people choose to accept Stones interpretation. By making this film and representing ... ...

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... can overcome anything. Roosevelt's speech contains an interesting pattern that is evidence of strategic linguistic construction. Generally speaking, Roosevelt touches base with Americans by first defending the presidency against any conspiracy theories regarding a warning sent to Hawaii of a possible attack. This is interesting because, looking back, we know this message did indeed exist, it just was not sent in time to ... ...

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... body to bury. Will our nation ever forget little John Jr. as he saluted his father being placed in his grave? Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone? Was the assassination a conspiracy? How was Jack Ruby related to the assassination? Will the debate over these questions ever end? I don't believe that the questions will end any time soon. If only Lee Harvey ... ...

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... products. The Embargo precipitated the Industrial Revolution. For Jefferson, the crises he dealt with are ones he"d rather forget. A minor crisis which Jefferson had to deal with was Aaron Burr's conspiracy, the details of which are still unknown, either to establish an independent republic in the Louisiana Territory or to launch an invasion of Spanish-held Mexico. Jefferson acted swiftly to ... ...

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... Emilio Aguinaldo of The Philippines and Jose Marti of Cuba as freedom fighters not unlike George Washington and other patriots of the Revolutionary War. Such newspapers also heartily accepted the conspiracy theory that it was a Spanish mine that destroyed the Maine. Soon enough, propagandist headliners such as "Whole Country Thrills With the War Fever, Yet President Says It Was An Accident ... ...

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... the four years Nixon was president. The actions were directed towards Democrats and were funded with secret illegal campaign contributions from political favor 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. Dean claimed "that no one on the White House ... ...

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... a football game for the first time since they started playing each other in 1875. The assassination is remembered as a loss of national innocence, which served to magnify the appeal of conspiracy scenarios. A single individual seemed to have murdered an entire era (Holiday). Formation of the League of Nations: The League of Nations is an international alliance for the preservation of peace ... ...

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