President of the United States

Who is Ronald Reagan? Ronald Reagan was the forty-first president of the United States of America. President Ronald Reagan has received both praise and criticism for the way he lead the United States of America. Examples of some praises include reducing burdensome and unnecessary regulation of business, as well as restoring military strength and invigorating the economy. In addition, President Ronald Reagan was the most ideological president of the last decades, who affirmed that the Soviet…

What was the motivation behind John Wilkes Booth’s plan to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? While there have been many tragic events in the history of the United States, Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was one of the most tragic event to ever occur. For example, many people thought that President Lincoln was the best man to unite the country together after the war, but instead he was killed in cold blood. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. A few…

was elected president. He lost the popular vote by more than two million votes, and yet won the presidency. This is the second time in 16 year that this has occurred. In the wake of the most recent election, the electoral college has become a controversial topic in the United States. In a presidential election, voters are not actually voting for the president and vice president. Residents of the United States are voting for a group of people called electors, who then elect the president.…

On July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was born to his abusive father, Leslie Lynch King, and his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner. Two weeks after his birth, his parents divorced and him and his mother moved to Grand Rapids, MI. While in Grand Rapids, his mother met a businessman named Gerald R. Ford. Dorothy and Gerald soon got married. Gerald was immediately nicknamed “Jerry” Ford and in 1935 officially changed his name to Gerald R. Ford Jr. Gerald was a successful athlete…

There have been many great leaders in the history of our beloved country but one that seems to stand out the most is one of our former Presidents. John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, has made a great influence on today’s government and society through his presidency and accomplishments. With him being such an iconic President he is now a role model for many other politicians. Not only was he a leader but also a determined man ready to get job done. Even though his time in…

On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as the President of the United States of America. On this day, he gave his first inaugural address to the American people. He pledged “an end the bureaucratic stagnation that plagued the administration of his predecessor.” (Pbs). He promised to lift America out of the worst economic depression, it had ever seen with rapid action. Roosevelt won the Presidential nomination over Herbert Hoover by an outstanding margin. March 4th, 1933 marks…

September, 1787 after many arguments of how the president should be elected. Now with the Electoral College every four years, the states choose presidential electors (the same amount of their representatives for Congress). So if a candidate running for president received lots of votes from electors then he wins. Electing the president is not based on the citizen’s votes. Are votes as the people are just to give the electors an idea of what the citizens of that state want. Then they don’t have to…

Congress is known to be powerful, but the face of the government is the President of the United States. However, the president roles of government are the commander-in-chief, head of state and leader of a political but one takes precedence over the other. The presidents are held to high standards, and the media do not help. In Article 2, it tells you what are the requirement for to become a President and what are the duties of the President. The founding father did not want a king; they wanted…

This book is a must read for students to grasp the assassination of a president and how it has affected us even today. Most people look to Abraham Lincoln as being a martyr while others view him as a man that sacrificed 620,000 lives to collect taxes and save northern manufacturing over southern slaves. "In this time when we…

engraved into the United States public’s recollection of history. Lewinsky served in the iconic monument of the United States during former president Bill Clinton’s presidency in which they developed an improper and highly criticized relationship that drew in the eyes of the public. The media publicized the scandal and brought massive attention filled with disgust and hate for Monica Lewinsky. The public shamed her for tearing up and subverting the relationship between the United States power…