Walter Mondale

Challenging the leader of the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan issued a statement on June 12, 1987. He arrived to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin with a challenge: to tear down the Berlin Wall and rally citizens to oppose the wall and accept democracy, “Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” There was no doubt that Reagan was a world leader and his word was very impactful. With his weighted word as President of the United States,…

The table above shows the following observations. In 1948 Congressional election, the Democrats taking advantage of President Truman’s coattails, who succeeded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt due to the latter’s death, gained 75 seats in the House and 9 seats in the Senate. In 1950 midterms with a 4.2% unemployment rate and an incumbent president who had a 40% (Below 50%), approval rating roughly a month before the midterm election, the Democrats lost 29 seats in the House and six seats in…

“On April 25, 1980, American television viewers watched in horror as a Shiite Muslim holy man, the Ayatollah held up the forearm and charred skull of a dead American soldier. The soldier had been sent with other U.S. troops to Tehran, Iran, on a mission to rescue sixty-six Americans being held hostage in the United States embassy known as ‘Operation Eagle Claw’ ” (Sarri, 1). On November 4, 1979, 3,000 Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took more than sixty Americans…

Scholars debate whether political polarization has grown among the mass public in the United States. One school of thought does not believe that the public has become more polarized (DiMaggio et. al 1998; Evans 2003; Klinkner 2006; Fiorina et. Al 2008). According to this thought, current measures of polarization conflate citizens’ votes with ideologies. Votes do not directly measure citizens’ ideologies, as citizens take into account candidates’ ideologies as well as their own when voting. On…

Jim Jones was born in rural Randolph county Indiana to James Thurman Jones and Lynetta Putnam. Lynetta was said to believe that she had given birth to the messiah. During the great depression, in 1934 the Jones family moved to Lynn Indiana. Jones was said to have studied on Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. He concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of each. Jones also developed a great interest in the idea of religion. Early on in his adulthood he…

Admirable men should be men who exemplify great leadership in a morally correct manner. As President of the United States, Ronald Reagan conducted business with class and honor. As a cofounder of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates led his company with passion, humility, and respect for others with whom he worked. Although Bill Gates has generously donated an enormous amount of money to the less fortunate, Ronald Reagan’s legacy has changed American politics forever. Ronald…

Bush campaign events and a democratic campaign event to get both sides of the coin, which many people do not end up seeing. My great-grandparents worked in the voting poll booths for their communities. My great uncle, Glenn Kiecker, worked for Walter Mondale, who was a Minnesotan Senator and Vice President under President Jimmy Carter. My civic life closely ties in politics and government, as it does and should for everyone living in the United States. Civic life is the life of a citizen…

the infiltration of the film industry. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was representing the republicans alongside with George H.W. Bush against the Nobel Peace Prize winner and author who served as the 29th president Jimmy Carter and his running mate Walter Mondale. At the end of it all, former Hollywood star and actor, Ronald…

with an electorate feeling betrayed by its own government during the Watergate scandal.” (Biography 2015). With those blocks of foundation, Carter was able to gain the trust of the Democratic party and won the nomination in July 1976, Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota was chosen as his running mate. Carter was up against Gerald Ford, who was Nixon’s vice president, but had stepped into presidency after Nixon’s resignation. Carter had a strong lead against Ford, but had started to slip once…

Introduction: The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) government to stop people form the eastern bloc to escape to the west through West Berlin. Its downfall in November of 1989 was huge news to the world as with its importance it affected the whole world. It was not just uniting a single country again but it also opened the border between the East and West of Europe and the world. It was an end to the Cold War tensions between the two ideologies of the USSR with…