Oval Office

increased size of drug agencies, Nixon demanded the use of mandatory sentencing for people caught with any type of illegal drug, even for a small amount of marijuana. After President Nixon’s term in the oval office commenced, President Reagan has his turn at the drug war. During Reagan’s time in office, the incarceration rates climbed exponentially due to his expansion of the war and increased funding for the war. Not only did Reagan actively campaign again the use of drugs, his wife and First…

president is definitely not a stroll in the park. However, as long as a candidate has the right plans coupled with the right flair and can get the majority of the votes of the US citizens, he or she has nothing standing between him or her and the oval office, right? Unfortunately, there is one more hurdle for the candidate to cross, one that has exacerbated the process of electing a president since the birth of the nation: the Electoral College. The Electoral College should be abolished because…

Agriculture led to the development of civilization and a division of society by class because many technological advances were made in the agricultural society that were considered revolutionary. For instance, cities situated along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers built irrigation systems, an artificial application of water to the land. This stimulated farm-production tremendously and made possible to support thousands and thousands of people (42). This invention shows that at this point in time,…

shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…” (Archives.gov). Having this hand written into the constitution gives this bill an enormous legal power without even landing the president’s desk in the oval office. This bill makes sure that every vote will matter in every state and in every presidential election counts. Unfortunately, this bill does not eliminate the electoral college all together. The electoral votes are still in effect to a point. To…

Diana Torres ELWR 1 Professor Thompson 14 November 2016 The Affect Sex and Race Have on Our Country Historically, predominantly many white males have run the United States. Out of the forty-four presidents in our history, only Barack Obama has not fallen into the category of being a white male. Why is it that in our history there is an underrepresentation in diverse ethnicities and different sexes? In today’s society, race and sex are presented and perceived in a way that affects electability.…

In this book he argues that each president can be categorized into 4 psychological types. He then goes beyond this assertion and says that each president 's “pre-White House experience” could tell voters how that candidate would perform in office. Prior to his publication, political scientists long had taken for given that the American presidency, because executive power is vested in one person and only vaguely defined in its limits, is an institution shaped largely by the personalities of…

1200 passengers. Even though there was a great uproar from the United States, they still remained neutral. In the year 1916, Wilson Woodrow was reelected on the platform pro-neutrality rhetoric and antiwar. By the time he was reelected into the oval office, the war had left economies and cities in ruins, many dead and no pivotal victory on any warring side. It was quite clear that the war would only cause destruction on itself. Maintaining the neutrality was also very hard due to the ethnicity…

The second special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, Leon Jaworski, said, “From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law”(“The Watergate Scandal”). President Richard Nixon dishonored the presidency by being deceitful to the country, misusing his powers by being involved in illegal acts, resulting in corruption and lies. Watergate…

On September 20, 2001, President George Bush addressed the Nation and the Congress, in the midst of the terror attacks upon America on September 11, 2001. The people of the United States needed support and direction on how they were going to deal with this hard to believe attack. The American people insisted that the President address the Nation after the attacks. Nine days later, the President did just that. Over the next several days, emotions ran high in the country. “Is it going to happen…

Guantanamo Bay is a U.S. detention facility located in Cuba that the U.S. has used since 2002 to mainly hold international criminals. After being sworn in as president in 2009, Obama made an Oval Office vow to shut down the prison, but he faced objections and legal issues. In February 2016, Obama presented a plan to Congress to close Guantanamo Bay that included, “transferring the bulk of remaining detainees to other countries and moving the rest…