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Gained national recognition after he delivered the keynote address at the democratic national convention, served as the US senator for Illinois, 1st African American president |
Obama |
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President during the September 11th terrorist attacks , led the us into Iraq war. Before becoming president he was managing partner/part owner of the Texas Rangers basketball team |
George w. Bush |
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Passed NAFTA trade agreement, popularity was uneven and good second term was marred by scandal |
Clinton |
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President when soviet union collapsed and the cold war ended, led the us in the Gulf war against Iraq. Was the first sitting VP to be elected since martin van buren |
George H W Bush |
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Credited with reviving national pride after the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s, only president to survive after being wounded by a would-be assassin |
Ronald Reagan |
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Had success promoting Middle East peace, soaring oil prices, high inflation, and the Iran hostage crisis made him look weak ineffectual comma after term, traveled the world doing charity work |
Jimmy Carter |
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Became vice president the former vice president resigned a disgrace and President after President resigned, pardon of Nixon was unpopular, probably costing him the election, only president never elected president or vice president |
Gerald Ford |
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Improved relations with the Soviet Union in China and round down the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal forced him to resign, only US president in history to resign his office |
Richard Nixon |
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Best sleeping anti-poverty and civil rights programs, involved in the US in the unpopular Vietnam War sworn into service on an airplane |
Lyndon B Johnson |
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President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, assassinated in the third year of his term, only Roman Catholic president |
John F Kennedy |
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Hope and the Korean War in spirit of moderate course during the Cold War, one of America's most famous soldiers |
Dwight D eisenhower |
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Made the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. World War two and two days later. Led the US during the Korean War, had a plate that said the buck stops here |
Harry S Truman |
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Let the nation during the Great Depression and to victory and World War 2, greatly expanded the size and role of the federal government through his New Deal social programs, only President elected four times |
Franklin D Roosevelt |
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Stock market crashed a few months into his term, organized relief efforts in Europe after both world wars |
Herbert Hoover |
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Marked by economic prosperity, ignoring science of the stock market was likely to collapse |
Calvin Coolidge |
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Died in office, just as massive corruption in the Teapot Dome scandal was about to become public, regarded as the worst president, his election was the first and which women voted |
Warren G Harding |
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Let us into the war and drafted the peace plan that ended it I want to create the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, first president to hold a news conference |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Continued many of this predecessors policies, alienated the progressive wing at this party and lost reelection, only president who became a Supreme Court justice |
William Howard Taft |
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One of the most active as president, accomplishments include the building of the Panama Canal, cracking down on business monopoly, and creating many national parks, first president to visit a foreign country while in office |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Let the US during the spanish-american war, only moments after handing a girl is lucky red carnation, he was assassinated |
William McKinley |
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Convert wean her former two were fighting the spoils system in those who wanted to continue it and was defeated after one term on the grandson of another president |
Benjamin Harrison |
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Only president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms, expanded the civil service and ended wasteful government programs |
Grover Cleveland |
