1972 Democratic National Convention

In the president election year of 1968, Nixon won 301 votes and defeated the Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who won 191 votes. Nixon edged Humphrey in the popular vote, with Wallace earning 13.53%. Nixon's victory came with a margin of less than three percent in California, Illinois, and Ohio; had Humphrey carried these three, Nixon would have lost his election. Nixon won most of the West and mid-West but lost parts of the Northeast and Texas to Humphrey and lost the deep South to Wallace…

II. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION STRATERGY WORLDWIDE. It is a fact that Aarhus convention in UNECE regional convention and the wider perspective of international environmental and human rights law was inspired and rooted in all international initiatives. Apart from recognizing the link between public participation and enjoyment of basic human rights the convention makes the reference to principle 1 of Stockholm declaration 1972 of the united nations conference on the human environment ,principle for…

independently wealthy, most must finance their campaigns with contributions from individuals and from businesses and other organizations (legal).” In 1974, most of these campaigns were funded by individual corporations or small groups of wealthy donors. In 1972, insurance executive W. Clement Stone contributed approximately $2.8 million directly into Richard M. Nixon’s re-election campaign. Many in Congress felt the need to limit the influence of money in political campaigns in order to regain…

While working as an educator in Bedford-Stuyvesant area of NYC, she was active in the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and fought against racism, proving herself in the political arena. Chisholm joined a local Democratic club who worked to get rid of the white Democratic machine that held the power in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. The group challenged the white leaders on why the black neighborhoods were…

POSC 458 - the Vietnam Wars, the United States officially entered the conflict in Vietnam in 1955 although President Harry S. Truman sent “advisors” to assist the French and insisted the “advisors” are not going for combat mission. That being said, national security was a major issue as a result of a different war the United States was involved in - a civil war in Korea that was not…

Q4: 1.0: Introduction The issue on whether the principle of supremacy (hereinafter called ‘POS’) of European Union (EU) law where EU law takes precedence over national law still stands firmly, or it is merely a hallucination in the eyes of national courts will be tackled by looking at the Member States’ (MS) responses to European Court of Justice (ECJ) decisions and the methods of ‘qualification’ to EU law’s supremacy that MS adopted alongside with the academics opinions. 2.0: EU law is…

Recently, this type of large-scale protest movement has begun to resurface. In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement drew global attention by occupying Zuccotti Park in New York’s Financial District for nearly two months. The Occupy Wall Street movement’s key issues were social and economic inequality. The group’s slogan is “We are the 99%,” and according to their website “The movement…aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that…

all play into the writing of this book. And the end result? The inner workings of Richard J. Daley and his Democratic political machine of Chicago are one of the most fascinating and shocking phenomenons in American political history. Before I dive into the book, I’d like to give some background information on the author Mike Royko in order to better understand his writing. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Royko…

him ahead of Hillary in national popularity. How is any of this possible? How could Donald Trump, who is so infamous he has even attracted the negative attention of citizens from other countries, potentially become the next President of the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world? The answer lies in the 1970s, where political turmoil along with the Vietnam War caused a series of chain…

During a time when black people in America were fighting against racial discrimination, Tommie Smith and John Carlos took a stand that many viewed as black power radicalism. While standing on the 1968 Mexico City Olympic podium, during the National Anthem, the two men quietly bowed their heads and each raised their black glove colored fist. Immediately, this action raised awareness towards black rights. By the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, the United States had gone through…