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    Men was an excellent film to watch and recommend to friends because it is interesting to watch how reporters struggle to uncover the truth behind the break-in. Also, the film informs us of the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon and gets another perspective of the historical event America endured in the late 1970s.Gary Arnold…

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    Richard Nixon represented the Republicans while John F. Kennedy represented the Democrats in the 1960 Presidential debate. The presidential election culminated with John F. Kennedy elected as president in 1960. With the advent of television, both nominees took…

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    after these programs were implemented all the funding for the VISTA programs was discontinued due to the inability of congress to make a funding decision for the program. In 1968, President Richard Nixon was elected and in 1969 he signed a bill which established funding for VISTA until 1971. In 1971, President Nixon implemented a reorganization plan which combined VISTA, Peace Corp, and senior programs (Senior Companion Program, the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Retired and Senior…

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    When you were a child, it is very likely that someone read a bedtime story to you before you went off to sleep. Normally, these fairytales would begin with, “once upon a time” and end with, “…lived happily ever after.” The ending suggested a positive future outcome for its protagonists, but unfortunately for most people, real life does not always play out this way. This is especially true if you belong to one or more of America’s historically marginalized groups: women, ethnic minorities and…

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    On May 4th of 1970 this college becomes a killing ground disperse with the bodies of college students, as choices made by the government provide another example of how nationalism is more important than life and freedom. The students protesting Richard Nixon’s decision of involvement in the Vietnam War were…

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    “is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces.” This has become the motto of the magazine. Rolling Stone’s 1994 June edition had several news values. For example, The National Affairs section focuses on Richard Nixon, which includes prominence because he was president and well-known. Also, controversy because it was explaining he was a “crook, a liar and a quitter,” which is an opinion. The National Affairs section in the 2015 edition of Rolling Stone…

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    On Labor Day in 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation, declaring, “The work ethic holds that labor is good in itself; that man or woman at work not only makes a contribution to his fellow man but becomes a better person by virtue of the act of working. [..] That is why most of…

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    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…

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    Richard Nixon became the 37th president of the United States of America in 1969. President Nixon decided to declare his War On Drugs in 1971 because he felt that hippies and black people were the greatest hindrances to his presidency. Nixon’s War On Drugs has destroyed and continues to destroy a lot of blacks families lives American because either one or both parents are serving outrageously sentences behind bars; therefore a lot of their children have a greater deal of difficulty in advancing…

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    instead of preventing them and in a way not make us look bad. Furthermore, presidents not only involve us in wars, they also make us look bad. During Richard Nixon 's presidency, a guy named Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers that informed everyone that the U.S had been involved in the Vietnam war since before they found out. So president Nixon used some men known as the plumbers to go after any leaking information on the war and after any of his enemies like Daniel Ellsberg. In addition…

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