...Name Course University Tutor Date Ronald Reagan Mention Ronald Reagan and the next person will say how great he was. Ratings approval ranks him higher than any other former presidents of the United State of America. He has been described as one of the greatest leaders of our times. He displayed many valuable traits that by and large helped him to become the great leader he was. Did his character influence his leadership style? This is the core point as far as this former president of United States was concerned. His character shaped whom he became giving his all and championing his course to make America a better place to live for all the citizens. His election as the president restored the hopes of the Americans who had been disillusioned by the leadership whom majority felt had lost touch with the people. Wallison, P (2004) points out that his unique traits had great influence as far as his success as a president was concerned (23) One of his major accomplishments was restoring the people’s hope with the government. This achievement can be overlooked by many but it was such an important step since it regained the people hope and renewed their commitment for their country. This is the first step for any nation that is interested in forging ahead after years of scandals, wars and many other misgivings that they would like to forget. When Reagan was leaving office after his completion of the two terms he thanked all the American people and mostly those...
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...controversies. The last two presidents the United States have elected into office have had to deal with major national crisis as well of the other burdens and responsibilities of being president. Each president has had very defining events and decisions of their presidency that they will be remembered for and that have made lasting changes for the United States. In 2001 George W. Bush became one of the few U.S presidents to win the Electoral College vote, but lose the National popular vote. He lost the National popular vote by more then half a million voters. Most people believe if you win the National popular vote you win Electoral College vote, and in most cases that does happen but for the first since Benjamin Harris’ presidency Bush won with 271 electoral votes. He needed 270 to win. In his first State of the Union address in 2001, he vowed to end racial profiling. In 2003 although not completely affective or airtight he issued an order to about seventy law enforcement agencies calling for an end to racial and ethnic profiling. This was the first ban of its kind. One of Bushes first policy decisions was on the matter of abortion. He decided to reinstate the ban on aid to international groups performing or counseling on abortion. Former President Ronald Reagan originally initiated the ban, which was a controversial political matter that was in and out of affect for over 25 years. The ban was rescinded during Obama’s presidency in 2009. Obama said the ban was “unnecessarily...
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...Commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, George Washington was the first president of the United States (1789-1797). In the battlefield, Washington managed to provide motivation and guidance for the troops which led to a signed peace treaty between Great Britain and the U.S. After this, despite the fact that he intended to go back to his life as a family man, he was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia and head the committee that was in charge of drafting the new constitution. His leadership skills were tested in both, the battlefield and the convention, where he was able to prove his qualifications and, therefore, become the nation’s first president. He was born in February 1732 and died 67 years later in 1799. Despite the fact that he didn't belong to any party, he did not lacked popularity and his term lasted for 8 years. Back then, the United States was made up of 11 states and over four million people...
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...When Barack Obama stood before a cheering crowd in his home state Illinois and announced his candidacy, no believed that this guy had any chance of winning the nomination. Majority of Americans did not believe that the country was actually ready for an African American president with a promise of changing the course of politics in Washington. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama's father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned to Kenya, where he died in an automobile accident nineteen years later. After his parents divorced, Obama's mother married another foreign student at the University of Hawaii, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia. From age six through ten, Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where he attended Catholic and Muslim schools. "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child," Obama later recalled. "And so what I benefited from is a multiplicity of cultures that all fed me."Concerned for his education, Obama's mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, and to attend Hawaii's prestigious Punahou School from fifth grade through graduation from high school. While Obama was in school, she divorced Soetoro, returned to Hawaii...
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...The name of the book which I have selected for this book report is Martin Van Buren. The author of this book was Ted Widmer. Ted Widmer, or Edward L. Widmer, was born in 1963 and he was a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton who was the President of the United States from 1993-2001. Also, he wrote this book about this man, Martin Van buren, who was the first President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence Also, Van Buren was the first president who was born without trace of Anglo-Saxon blood. He did not speak English, but rather Dutch. Throughout the book, Widmer tries to convince the reader that Van Buren was not that bad of a President for the United States of America. Everyone puts the blame on him for the Panic of 1837...
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...George Washington and John Adams were the first two presidents of the United States. They played vital roles in creating the American Republic, and had it not been for them, our current American Republic would be very different or possibly even nonexistent. Yet, despite the hard work they put into our nation’s beginnings, they were also very different. Both men came from the same era, but could one be considered better than the other? George Washington, born on February 11, 1732, in Westmoreland Country, Virginia was our nation's first President. Washington and his ancestors were quite influential in Virginia “The patriarch of the family, John Washington, had come over from England in 1657 and established the Washingtons as respectable, if not...
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...American Government Ulysses S. Grant Becoming the eighteenth President of the United States is an honor to me for many reasons. The history of my life, the trials and tribulations I have been put through has made me the man, and the intelligent, well-rounded President that I am today. You only have one life to live and this is the life I have conquered. On April 27, 1822 in a town known as Point Pleasant Ohio, I was born to my parents, Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson, as Hiram Ulysses S. Grant. Following behind would be my siblings, Samuel Simpson Grant, Clara Rachel Grant, and Virginia Paine Grant. As I became older, my family and I moved to Georgetown, Ohio where my father pursued his business as a tanner. We lived on a simple farm where I preformed my share of chores due to the fact that the tannery did not interest me much. I developed considerable skills with handling horses while living on the family farm. In 1839, my father held an appointment for the United States Military Academy located in West Point, New York and pressured me to attend. Even though I had no interest in the military, I figured I would attend since going back to school was not an importance at the time. In 1843 I graduated from USMA ranking twenty-first in my class of thirty-nine pupils and gained a reputation at the academy as a fearless and expert horseman with an astonishing knowledge of mathematics. Upon graduating, I was assigned as a brevet second lieutenant to the fourth U.S Infantry...
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...| | | | | Phase 4 Individual Project Sara Smith HIST101-1303B-10 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Constantinos Scaros Colorado Technical University President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal In 1998 President Bill Clinton was questioned about several allegations that he had harassed and/or had sexual relationships with women that worked under him. He became the first President to ever be involved in questioning as a civil defendant. In the testimony both President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky denied having a sexual relationship, though there were tapes found of conversations between Lewinsky and her co-worker Linda Tripp that suggested otherwise. It seemed that everyone was on the President’s side when it came to the affair charges, even his wife Hilary Clinton. The first lady was quoted as saying that the entire thing was a “vast right-wing conspiracy to destroy her husband.” ("Lewinsky scandal,") On the 17th of August President Clinton took the stand and testified in front of the grand jury to admit his wrong. He then later went on national television to admit to the American people that not only had he been lying for months but that he had indeed had an extramarital affair during his presidency with Monica Lewinsky. In September of that year Starr Jones sent a document nearly 500 pages long to the White House giving four different reasons why the President should be impeached. These included...
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...George Bush’s speech addressing the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, one of the most crucial attacks against the United States in the countries’ history. At the time he addresses the nation, the attack was already over. Bush’s career started as governor of Texas in 1995 and in 2000 he resigned as governor of Texas, to run for the presidency. He was the president of the United States at the time of the attack on the World Trade Center. In the speech address by former President Bush, he tries to persuade the American people that the country was attacked by terrorists and that he is doing everything in his power to help the citizens of the nation. He talks about how America was attack because they are known for their opportunities...
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...Jefferson was a very interesting and complex man. How you feel about the "goodness" of his Presidency depends very much on the ideas, and views, and judgments, you yourself bring to the evaluation. Thomas Jefferson was a very orderly man, and set many strict rules for people to follow. Thomas Jefferson was key in the early stages of the building of the great nation we call America. Some of his greatest achievements were that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, he fought for religious freedom, and advocated for free public education. This and many other characteristics led to Jefferson being one of the greatest presidents in America's history. As said by, “ thetoptens.com”, “President Jefferson is america. We wouldn't be here without him.”...
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...Assignment 3: “World War II Through The 1970’s” Joseph L. Carter History 105 June 11, 2012 Professor Everett Hardy Strayer University Delaware County Campus Analyze the facts that war and propaganda had on American society World War 2 and the 1970’s. Looking at the history of the United States, never had the country seen such dramatic changes in the social, economic, and political structure that happened at the end of World War II. Multiple events throughout this period guided the direction of the United States government and the attitudes of Americans. This paper will provide a look into the evolution of the United States by analyzing the most significant events in the five decades after World War II. The 1950s brought about a new look into the foreign affairs for the United States government and the American people. After the victory of World War II, two allies of the war, the United States and the Soviet Union became bitter enemies that tried to secure a position of world leader. The Soviet Union had its Communist Manifesto that according to the Decades Project (1999) website stated, “a mission statement that provides that communism requires a world revolution and the destruction of capitalism in order to succeed”. This was a direct threat to the American Way of life, and started the beginning of the Cold War. With different ideals and hunger for power, both sides began to build up military strength, especially...
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...When many people study history and learn the mistakes from the past, it would be easier to able to understand the present. Nevertheless, it is not enough to simply study the events that have transpired. By changing the unfavorable events that led to despair and continuing the benefits to society, one can understand why they happen and better the future. In the United States in the early 1920s, a new stage appeared with different movements in the areas of politics, economics, society, culture, and foreign policy. By the events that led to the 1930s, new crazes had developed in many of these areas, while other areas remained in continuity. From the 1920s to the 1930, there were several factors that contributed to the changes in American society. The 1920s began shortly after in World War I when the United States and the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918. Many Americans were fed up with Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president from 1913 to 1921. The first election of the 1920s scoured Republican Warren G. Harding against Democrat James M. Cox. Cox supported Wilson and the League of Nations in the election. However, Harding won the election in a landslide, which was a sign of America¡¦s frustration with Wilson and his optimistic and liberal policies. The start of the new conservative era restored the power to the Republicans after the presidential election of the 1920. Harding made quite a few excellent appointments to his cabinet although he failed to demonstrate to have much...
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...could not infringe on those rights. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments ensuring Americans freedom of speech, freedom to protest, freedom to bear arms, and many others. The first amendment is the most popular and one of the most important of the amendments. The first amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Personally the most important part of the first amendment is the freedom of speech. Being able to speak your mind without fear of being prosecuted for it is a true freedom. I have family that came from Cuba; a country where speaking your mind can lead to jail time or death. I know that this is a freedom we take for granted in the United States. The first ten amendments are significant because they are the first but there have been many more amendments that have changed America for the better and some for the worst. The most blood was spilt before the thirteenth amendment was passed and ending slavery for good in the United States. However this did not end discrimination so the government had to add the fifteenth amendment to ensure that race was not to determine if a person could vote. This amendment did not include gender. So women rallied and the nineteenth amendment was passed giving women the right to vote. The...
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...Watergate Paper Paul Salabarria HIS/145 June 26, 2012 Jeff Wilson Watergate Paper Watergate was a scandal that involved a break-in into the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the Nixon administration. Watergate was one of the most famous political scandals in American history. Decades after Watergate historians and others continue to argue about its causes and significance (Brinkley, 2007). It marked a period that both weakened our relationships with other countries as well as weakened the public’s belief in the President. A majority of Americans believe that newspapers, radio and television are devoting too much space and time to covering the Watergate scandals (“53%,” 1974). Both Time and Newsweek reported that John Dean, counsel to the president, was ready to say that the President knew of the Watergate cover-up. Newsweek put out an advance press release of this story first, and this became the basis of stories elsewhere. The Washington Post, however, reported the story carefully framed to put the charges in a proper context. Their articles carefully “pointed out the key fact that the statements by Mr. Dean were made while negotiating for immunity” (“Watergate,” 1973). The whole Watergate case is surely an example of why the press is important to a free society. With due respect for Judge Sirica’s persistence in breaking down those convicted in the break-in, it’s doubtful that the story of the scandal would ever have come out as completely if there had...
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...From going to the “little black boy with the weird name”, to the very first black president of the United States, Barack Obama is making history. “The New New Deal” which is a book written by Michael Grunwald goes into great detail of Obama before presidency and during presidency. I believe that this book is somewhat uninteresting, but very informative and it would be great for someone interested in Obama’s acts as the president. The book was published in 2012 in New York, NY by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Michael Grunwald, the author, presents many facts throughout the book and he also expresses his opinions on certain things. “The New New Deal” shows how Obama’s acts and plans as president were a success. The author in the beginning of the book...
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