... secretly resumed a few weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre. On the same day that Panama was invaded the White House also announced plans (and implemented them shortly afterwards) to lift a ban on loans to Iraq. The State Department explained with a straight face that this was to achieve the "goal of increasing US exports and put us in a better position to deal with Iraq regarding its human ... rights record...."" The Department continued with the ... America, but it also has a long and bloody history of political violence. Hundreds of thousands were killed in Las Violencia, a civ...

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... Republicans to create, promote, and pass their budget, as promised on campaign trail 94, Clinton rejected the very bill he demanded. This essentially brought the federal budget back to square one. Clinton thought such a demand on Republicans to produce a budget would produce inner-party quarrels and cause the GOP to implode. Instead, they produced a fiscal budget that passed both houses of Congress, only ... government size, changing taxation methods, and consuming less, our budget can be balanced (Rau M-1). Defending Deficits: In defense of deficits, some may argue that the danger of th...

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... Republicans to create, promote, and pass their budget, as promised on campaign trail 94, Clinton rejected the very bill he demanded. This essentially brought the federal budget back to square one. Clinton thought such a demand on Republicans to produce a budget would produce inner-party quarrels and cause the GOP to implode. Instead, they produced a fiscal budget that passed both houses of Congress, only ... government size, changing taxation methods, and consuming less, our budget can be balanced (Rau M-1). Defending Deficits: In defense of deficits, some may argue that the danger of th...

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... 's requests or he would send in the National Guard to take the mine away from him. This was completely opposite from the way Gilded Age politics worked. Grover Cleveland threatened to use the National Guard to break up the Pullman Strike siding with the company, not with the union. While the public was extremely happy with the deal worked out with the coal company, know as the "square deal," it was very unsuccessful according ... to many historians such as John A. Garraty who says, "In fact the results were by no means so clear cut. The miners gained relatively little and ... ...

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... 39 percent of college students were dead set against participating in any war, even if the country were invaded. America was at war with poverty and did not want to deal with any outside forces. Isolationism continued. American culture encouraged isolationism during the mid 1930s. The Book of the Month Club featured a volume entitled Merchants of Death, which asserted that arms manufacturers ... who had deliberately stimulated the war to market their products had drawn the United States into World War I. From 1934 to 1936, ... a reason for Americans to fear communism even further. Crisis...

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... ties and dinner jackets to school functions, and which included the town's richer families. With a group of other students Nixon set out to break the Franklins social monopoly by organizing the Orthogonians, a name from the Greek word meaning "square-shooters-. The Orthogonians wore loose v-neck sweaters, and represented something different than the Franklins, effectively separating Nixon from those who inherited wealth with ... Nixon began to appear in the press."" (N v. N p. 177) In 1968, after six years of not serving a public office, to everyone's surprise, Richard Nixon decided to ...

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