All the President's Men

Roosevelt sent the White house a list of women capable of holding high administrative positions and Esther Peterson, head of the Women’s Bureau, approached Kennedy about creating a commission to address women’s issues. In response, Kennedy created the President’s commission on the status of women in 1961. The commission issued a sixty-page report in 1963 titled American Women. It called for equal pay, better educational opportunities and social services for women. It sparked the fire of the…

De Gaulle was very resilient throughout his life. He exemplified this quality many times during his leadership as one of France's President's. In August of 1944, Charles de Gaulle was named President of France. De Gaulle began leading France in the direction he thought that was best for the country but after being ignored and disrespected many times. However, just two years later in…

Abraham Lincoln, also called “Honest Abe, The Great Emancipator, The Rail-splitter” he who had the skills and leadership needed to rule the US after the horrific, chaotic, life-changing period. According to the Chicago Tribune, he was successful in all five categories: “ leadership qualities, accomplishments /crisis management, political skills, appointments, and character/integrity.” Throughout this essay, you will learn about President Abraham Lincoln, his family, life: education, childhood…

What is the line one must cross for their actions to result in them being shunned from society? In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is shunned by society when her sin is discovered, while members of society largely disregard the sins of her lover. In modern society, adulterers are not forces to display the letter A on their chest or stand on a scaffold to be publicly shamed, but the underlying concept is still prevalent. An example of this that possesses many parallels to The Scarlet Letter is…

that it was the Florida expedition that persuaded the Lincoln administration to begin actively recruiting blacks in May 1863. However, the author doesn’t consider the possibility that other events may have played an important part in changing the president’s mind. It seems too much of a coincidence that less than a month before the expansion of black recruitment, the North suffered one of its worst defeats at Chancellorsville. A defeat that was so devastating, Lincoln responded by saying “My…

Terms: Patronage – the ability to give an office or position to another; many Jeffersonian wanted positions to be transferred to them from the previous president’s cabinet, which Jefferson refused to do, despite differences in political party judicial review – established by Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, it is the belief that the Supreme Court has the right to judge the constitutionality of a situation, not any other branch. Impressment – the forceful enlistment of a person for service as a…

In the 1770s, when America was just beginning to form, Alexander Hamilton stood out against the crowd—a genius amongst common men—and became one of the most important men in America’s history. The reason that Hamilton caused such a great influence on the newfound country is because his views on everything around him were different from that of society. The Founding Father had an opinion on every subject that dared to grace his mind, writing endless pages on each topic, from the smallest matter…

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is down in history as one of the most influential of all the First Ladies (Maney 1). Eleanor accomplished many things, from being a writer and an activist, to co-founding Val-Kill Industries. Eleanor often traveled across the country to inspect the social conditions that the citizens of that region were living in (Freedman 2). If the conditions did not meet her standards, she would attempt to reform through the…

In 1967 the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice was released and changed society’s outlook on police for the better and allowed for police to finally be the hero in many films. In the beginning of the cop film era all cop heroes or ideal cops were white masculine men and maintained the gender norms in society. The ideal and masculine cop was shown as detectives who could always get the girls and their suspect by being quick to pull their gun. Mills in the film…

The watergate scandal involved five men from the Republican committee breaking into watergate hotel and bugging democrats rooms. It was later found out that Nixon had issued this order and may have been involved in many other scandals. Numerous noticeable individuals from the President's organization surrendered. VP Spiro Agnew was likewise compelled to leave for taking rewards. Congress then had Gerald Ford take the place of Spiro Agnew. A select Senate panel, headed by Senator Sam Erving,…