... history. It involved illegal activities such as burglary, wire-tapping and espionage. All designed to help Richard Milhous Nixon to win re-election in 1972 But, instead it resulted in the resignation of president Nixon. On June 17, 1972 five men were caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee ... White House staff members. Which meant that there were more people involved then just the original seven. The cover-up started to begin. The Nixon administration hid and shredded any and all documents, which could lead to any, connected between the white house and...

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... it to reach independent voters. His selection of Dick Cheney as a running mate in July helped Bush keep his conservative base while addressing concerns that the party shows a compassionate face. Richard B. Cheney, widely credited with helping mastermind the U.S.-led military victory over Iraq, by reputation is deliberate but decisive, a Washington insider who honed his skills of persuasion both in Congress and ... Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, a close friend of President Gerald Ford. Cheney served under Rumsfeld in the anti-poverty agency of the Nixon years, on the Nixon White House staff and u...

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... City in 1978. He served in the Vermont House from 1982 to 1986, was elected lieutenant governor in 1986, and became governor in 1991 with the death of then-Governor Richard Snelling. Dean's tenure in office was very impressive: He paid off an inherited $70 million deficit, created 41,000 new jobs, raised minimum wage twice, and guaranteed health coverage to ... anti-war candidate, took his party by storm, won the nomination in the face of opposition by the Democratic establishment, and then went on to lose 49 states to President Nixon in November. Whether or not the comparison is justif...

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Why did George Bush win in 2000? In the closest Presidential election since John Kennedy edged out Richard Nixon in 1960, George Walker Bush beat Al Gore in a hotly disputed race where the winner was effectively decided by the Supreme Court. Bush took advantage of Al Gore's crucial errors ... ...

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