SEARCH RESULTS

power because he placed himself above the law in authorizing the Watergate break-in. The tapes from the Nixon White House show a m...

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

are pervaded with a sense of innocence violated" (pp. 6). In fact, in a pre-release review presented in The New Republic, Lane com...

of both his campaign and presidency so that the vast majority of his adoring constituency had no idea how severe his condition act...

II, but once in office, he showed traits of being politically indecisive, inarticulate, and bumbling. He was considered by his cri...

was perhaps so impressive about Roosevelt is his willingness to introduce morality into the decision making process with which he ...

are many examples throughout his career of conflicts which transpired and his apparent effortless handling of them. The Life of ...

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

not try to mislead, the media sometimes does this. There are in fact people who do contend that the media has controlled many elec...

she decided that it was important to bring art into the nations capital and the nations heart. "Her interest in the arts, publiciz...

Johnson entered hesitantly, he won the race (2003). During World War II, Johnson briefly did a stint in the Navy but returned to...

Petticoat Presidency? 2003). Edith Wilson was a woman who had grown up in a happy home, with protective parents who adored her (E...

said. I believe this was Nixons greatest downfall - not being true to his word. In the aftermath of Watergate, there...

have presided over rough economies. The poor economy, in fact, cost Bush Senior the 1992 election. According to experts, Bush Juni...

the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...

the people", and that it was his responsibility and obligation to act on behalf of what was good for the nation - using whatever l...

branch. It can propose and make laws and it can pass laws with a two thirds vote even if the President vetoes a bill, but at first...

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

snuff, the idea that the presidents role should be expanded goes against everything that the Founders intended. First, what did th...

world is out of the picture as it died when the Great Wall fell, but there is still a rising third world that eats rice and beans ...

those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...

Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein - would ultimately lead to one of the most shocking...

towards achieving those goals. Kouzes and Posner put it much better: "When people described to us their personal-best leadership e...

role of Americas first President, seeking to separate his persona as the general "who was first in war" from the President "who wa...

breathe new life into the ailing American space program, appealing to Uncle Sams love of competition. He made frequent references...

2000, p. 509). By 1877, these political aims were losing ground, paving the way for the return to the South of white domination (F...

international community. Some of the wilder theories were that the Soviets were behind the shooting, and there were fears that it ...

prestigious job in existence. The president has never made a secret of the fact that he grew up in a single parent household ...