Presidents of the United States

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    Should the united states continue to elect its president through the electoral college system? To ease some of the tension with this decision let me lay down some facts and information. In a presidential election, the popular vote simply means an aggregate of all voters from all states in America. The candidate who gets the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote. But the winner of the popular vote may end up losing the election, like “Al Gore did in 2000 and Hillary Clinton…

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    Eleanor Roosevelt On November 9, 2016 the United States woke up with new leadership elected to lead our country. Eight three years ago Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was walking through the doors of the White House, poised to forge a new path for First Ladies over the next 12 years. Eleanor Roosevelt exemplified characteristics of a visionary and ethical leader by lobbying for human rights; emphasizing issues surrounding women, children, and race (Biography.com). Visionary Leader In 1927, she bought…

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    curtain has descended across the Continent.” Thus the strategy of the United States developed to ensure that arch of Soviet influence remained contained within those established lines. Not long after, communism breached those lines, as Stalin attempted to strong-arm Iran and Turkey under Soviet Control, and the first signs of containment conflicts between communism and democracy appeared in Greece, with their civil war. US President Harry Truman responded with…

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    Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States and he served two terms, from 1981-1989. He defeated Jimmy Carter in a landslide of four hundred eighty-nine electoral votes to forty-nine in the election (Reagan). His campaign phrase was “Are you better than you were four years ago? (Jones). Before he was president he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1970. Reagan studied economics and sociology at Eureka College and became…

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    The Electoral College When the founding fathers wrote the constitution, there was conflict on who would determine the president of the United States. While, some believed the President should be elected by Congress, others believed that it should be popular vote by citizens. Hence, the Electoral College was established as a compromise. Conversely, the concept of the Electoral College wasn’t introduced in the Constitution until the 12th Amendment. According to BOOK TITLE the Electoral College is,…

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    The 1992 Presidential Election was held on Tuesday, November 3rd. The fate of the American people was resting on three major candidates: Republican President George W Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton, and the Independent Ross Perot. During this election, Ross Perot, the third party candidate, obtained 19% of the vote, which was the highest percentage for an Independent party in American history. The race for the White House was on: Who was the stronger candidate? Who would convince the American…

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    Federal Government before and after New Deal The new deal was the very important strategy of the federal government to get rid of the great depression of 1929 in the United States. Before Franklin D Roosevelt took over, Herbert Hoover was the President of United States. At that time the country was running in a laissez faire economy which means federal government had no power over the business affair in the economy. The business were free to run in their own way, government did not have any…

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    1. What challenges did this president inherit? George Washington was challenged with military and western expansion as well as having to set up a whole system of government. Franklin Delano Roosevelt inherited the challenge of dealing with the Great Depression because our economy was in shambles due to the stock market. Lyndon Johnson had the challenged of a rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Vietnam; he had segregation issues to deal with (“Lyndon B. Johnson”).…

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    April 30, 1975. The Cold War was a global war between the main two government powers, which were the United States, and the Soviet Union. Overall about three million people were killed during the brutal warfare. At the peak of the war about half a million America soldiers were killed, the division among the United States citizen led to the withdraw of American forces under the authorization of President Richard Nixon. Although World War I was known for brutality and the dehumanizing of troops,…

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    President Ronald Reagan gave an example about one of the US president that was too many times also in Germany, “Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall” (Eidenmuller pp.1). Making weapons was not his main interest, but making weapons…

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