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Bush II, Iran-Contra and the Imperial Presidency

they feared that Congress would stop them if it knew of their activities and because they feared, as well, the political consequen...

Ronald Reagan's Conservatism

Ronald Reagan as being staunch in his support of conservatism. While his actions may have caused some to question his beliefs, he ...

LBJ and Reconstruction

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

Foreign Policy in Central America During the Carter Presidency

issues dominate the low politics of economics and other issues" (p. 465). Adherents of this somewhat rigid mindset believe that ...

The President is in the End Just a Person

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

Andrew Jackson, His Presidency and Policies

had, or the worst, depending on ones point of view. This paper discusses why he was controversial, what he hoped to achieve, what ...

MEDIA, THE WAR AND THE PRESIDENCY

information is wanted out there has become that much more difficult. But few issues have caused as much outrage as how the...

Watergate as Covered by the Print Media

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

Leadership Principles and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet

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

Communication and U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Mexico

in Colombia, or the uncertainty of an eventual post-Castro Cuba?" . Mexico, of...

President Jimmy Carter

based lawyer Cyrus Vance became Carters secretary of state. He bluntly condemned the d?tente foreign policy developed by Presiden...

Events in Jefferson's Presidency

an ideal opportunity for the young country slip away. Spain had ceded its land holding in the Mississippi River valley to France, ...

The Presidency and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

and 1776, and there he would write the Declaration of Independence ("Thomas Jefferson," 2007). In 1786, he helped to author a bill...

Evaluating John Adams's Presidency

the lions share of the credit" (Bruns, 2007). McCullough says that Adams had an "astute political mind" as well as being an eloqu...

Ronald Reagan, the Most Effective President Since 1950

federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us... need to be reminded that the federal government...

The Life and Legacy of Gerald R. Ford

went to Yale to get his law degree he would coach football, and while many lawyers managed to find a way to stay out of war, Ford ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...

The Emergence Of The Modern Congress And Presidency

and every bureau" (Sundquist, 1981, p. 38) every year. Prior to that Act, each department and bureau had to submit their own progr...

Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton

off attacks from those who should have been working with him for the benefit of the American people. Discussion When Bill Clinton...

Effectiveness of U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson

As the War was coming near its end Truman had sent a very urgent plea to Japan that they needed to surrender. They refused and the...

Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

savings of 15% of Americans with them ("The New Deal"). People were losing faith in banks, and to prevent a collapse of the entir...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

Exploring “Team of Rivals”

and its basic conceit, around which the paper will be based. The primary theme of Goodwins work is that the presidency of Abraham ...

American Imperialism and its Roots in the Republican - Federalist Debates

time was that he "magnified the authority of the Court" to be able to interpret the constitutionality of actions and rule upon it ...

The American Presidency

of both the despotism that can be imposed by a monarch, as well as the "tyranny of a fixed popular majority" (Foner and Garraty). ...

Biography of Jimmy Carter

in the face of his inability to work with Congress and convert "his ideas into legislative realities" ("Jimmy Carter," 2010). In r...

THE BLACK HISTORY OF AMERICA’S WHITE HOUSE

white house, to the slaves that actually built it, through generations of servants, aids, activists who worked there, all the way...

The Libertarians and Their Undoubtedly Fruitless Quest for the Presidency

The chips are in. Presidential candidates have been selected and both the Democrats and the Republicans...

Speaker Notes - Community College President

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at community college presidency. Speaker notes for a Power Point presentation are provid...

A Just Verdict, Albert Fujimori

This essay argues the verdict reached against Albert Fujimori, former president of Peru, is appropriate due to the detriment, inju...