... 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon was one of the most controversial politicians. He used the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties to catapult his career, but as president he eased tension with the Soviet Union and opened relations with Red China. He was president during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. Entertainer fo the Time Elvis Presley Elvis Aron Presley was born to ... Vernon and Gladys Presley in 1935 in Tupelo Mississippi. Their were supposed to be two boys born that day, but Elvis' twin brother Jesse Garon Presley was born still, Elvis woul...

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... in scores of cities around the country. The United States had a simple yet bloody goal in Vietnam, to keep the communists from acquiring South Vietnam. The U.S. had three main avenues to help South Vietnam resist communist guerrilla attacks: 1) The dispatch to South Vietnam of U.S. operational personnel; 2) Reconnaissance missions along the border of North and South Vietnam; 3) Bomber strikes at Communist guerrilla bases. The U.S. expected to win the war with the Viet Cong within three years ... with high but acceptable causalities. In reality the U.S. lost the war and had a casualty .....

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... explosive sixties that implemented "Civil Disobedience" were Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Moody. Martin Luther King Jr. was the prominent leader of the Civil Rights movement and later spoke out on the injustice of the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr. was faced with oppression throughout his whole life but overcame all of it by using his right to address government. Martin Luther King Jr ... . knew something must be done in order to overcome all that his people have endured the last two hundred years. Martin Luther King Jr ... . stood up in the face of adversary and took the ... ...

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... a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at ... the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must ... be ours." Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Consc...

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... the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King and Malcolm gave their lives trying to right the ... wrong, standing up for injustice. They battled for the ... waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.' He got on the wrong side of the United States' government when he spoke against their activities in Vietnam and the Congo. He chided King, which made ...

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