Presidents of the United States

Why didn’t President Hoover do anything to try and stop the Great Depression? President Hoover was widely criticized for not helping the citizens and just the farmers. People were struggling and needed help from someone with competency. People would go to the streets and would build small huts out of scrap wood, and call them “Hoovervilles”. Throughout the Great Depression, people were becoming homeless and unemployed because President Hoover didn’t do anything to try and help them. Throughout…

During the Cold War, The United States Government, Armed Forces, and Central Intelligence Agency faced the formidable task of having to battle and contain the spread of the communist, socialist, and Marxist ideologies of the Soviet Union across dozens of countries around the world without igniting another “hot” or total war. Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, United States history has aimed at encouraging the belief that the United States is a force for the good in…

President Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Jackson was head of the executive branch for two terms, from 1829 to 1837. Jackson was also known as the president of the common man. His new title was not the only thing that came out of his presidency, many changes occurred during his presidency that impacted The United States in many ways. During Jackson’s presidency, he attempted to shape the economy in a way he saw fit, Jackson also played a role in the reformation of…

This paper will show to the reader why Physicist Leo Szilard’s “Petition to the President of the United States” was unsuccessful in persuading President Truman to not use the atomic bomb in Japan during the second world war. The petition drafted by Mr. Szilard and his colleagues lacked empathy, showed no sympathy and failed to convey the evidence needed to persuade Truman. If the petition would have been written in a way to emotionally connect with the President’s difficult decision to use a…

What would have happened if four presidents that have long since been entered into the history books had not been the ones elected? In 1876, 1888, 1960, and 2000, the popular vote and the Electoral College did not elect the same candidate. However, the Electoral College had the final decision. The latest discrepeancy between the two voting systems revived the debate about the best election method. George C. Edwards develops the argument about how the Electoral College, with a faulty system…

responsibility in our country, and that person is the President of the United States. This job does not only have many responsibilities and duties, but also has many requires just to become President. The most basic requirements form the Constitution says the President must be a natural born citizen of the United States, be at least thirty-five years old, and must live in the United States for at least fourteen years or longer. Many people in the United States can meet these three requirements,…

Rodham Clinton is an American politician who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She is the wife of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, and was First Lady of the United States during his tenure from 1993 to 2001. Clinton subsequently served as a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and is a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. A native of the Chicago…

After the civil war ended, immigrants began to colonize in the United States. This made it difficult for the United States government to watch the majority of the population, this would lead to many laws being broken. One of the presidents who were successful to fix a large part of the problems the U.S faced was Theodore Roosevelt. During the 1890s-1920s, United States was in its Progressive Era which was a time period in which there was political reforms across America. During 1901-1909…

The United States and the United Kingdom’s system of choosing the leader of vary greatly in how the processes are done. But if one were to investigate and research further into the systems, one would find the fundamental processes are similar in which they operate with only a few key differences between the two electoral processes. One of the major differences between the United Kingdom and the United States is that in the UK citizens do not directly elect the leader of the country, they simply…

drastically different than when President George Washington was first elected at the end of 1700s. Over the past two hundred and twenty eight years we have had many Presidents in office. Some have been highly praised, some have had to overcome adversity, and some have been corrupt. Do to our changing times the Presidency has had to change and adapt to the ever altering world. In response to these changes and demands our highest office of government has evolved. The President has gained more…