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James K. Polk and Texas' Annexation

had been annexed before Polks inauguration. Wishing to acquire California and New Mexico also, Polk seized on a skirmish between M...

2001's USA Patriot Act

where he specializes in the relationship between information technology and national security (Carnegie Endowment for Internationa...

Middle East and its 'Roadmap to Peace'

be added (Dusting it off, 2003). Cynics say that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon never dreamed that the Palestinians would co...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

Administration of President George W. Bush, Endangered Species, and International Trade

of all the various ways animals serve mankind, there has historically been little thought given to their own right to existence, h...

UK and US Chief Executives

and they are not able to exercise power over each other to terminate the office. This is a true separation of the powers. The term...

Abraham Lincoln and FDR on War and Social Upheaval

states which formed the nation had been torn apart by ideology and war. With the end of the Civil War our nation, not yet one-hun...

Post 1960 Public Speaking Changes

It is an acknowledged fact that conversational styles and communication skills vary between cultures and genders (Nelton, 1995). ...

The Last Three Decades of Antitrust Regulation

In a research paper consisting of five pages the political side of the enforcement of antitrust laws is considered with a comparat...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

Great Depression and the WPA, FHA and AAA New Deal Agencies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

to compare the situation in agriculture and in industry today with what it was fifteen months ago. At the same time we have recog...

Letter to The President of The United States

the historical context of the second Gulf War to support their arguments. Since the end of World War II, US defense and foreign p...

Life and Presidency of George W. Bush

the Texas Rangers baseball franchise and he served as managing general partner until his gubernatorial bid in 1994 (History Centra...

Illegal Immigrant January 2004 Work Visa Extension and President George W. Bush

of his plans for issuing work visas to illegal immigrants brought several facts to the surface which had previously been largely i...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

3 Biographies on Abraham Lincoln Analyzed

Lincolns reputation has been acquired through the perpetuation of myth and because Lincoln is so far removed in history. Furtherm...

Mistakes In Foreign Policy During The Clinton Administration

terrorist is not Saddam or Arafat, he threw a wrench into foreign policy. For both Saddam and Bin Laden, Clinton knew they were da...

Brazil's Policies Regarding Land Reform

Cuba, have failed, is beyond logic or reason. Of course, the Brazilian government does not call it communism but all one has to do...

Capitalism and How It was Saved by FDR

as many of his critics argued (Schlesinger, 1998). Before Roosevelt took office, the country had suffered a depression about eve...

Economic Policies of U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

September 11, 2001, and rushed headlong into full blown recession with the grounding of the US airline industry. Selected Economic...

George W. Bush Biography

Welsh, a librarian (Rozell, 2003). Laura would become instrumental in supporting George W. Bush in his career, including his diff...

Liberalism and Bill Clinton

opposition by keeping to a decidedly conservative course. In his second term in the White House, Clinton espoused a commitment to ...

Richard Bruce Winder's Mr. Polk's Army

much of that time was spent training them. By the time the training was completed, there was little time left to use the militia o...

Iraq War Justification

In four pages this paper discusses President George W. Bush's justification of the war with Iraq in a consideration of the hypothe...

U.S. Economy During the Presidencies of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

that can control things such a taxes. They are also involved in appointments to economic posts, such as Secretary of the Treasury ...

Famous 14 Points Speech of President Woodrow Wilson

Peace Without Victory speech. Nordholt (1991) reflects a president who was adamant about creating a world where alliance was "the...

Antidumping Problems and U.S. Steel Tariff Resolution Options

than apparent is the fact that South Korea will have imposed tariffs but Mexico and Canada will not. Such favoritism does not bod...

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

U.S. First Ladies from the Time of Eleanor Roosevelt to Laura Bush

that they should work to promote various social policies. Eleanor Roosevelt was a controversial first lady, and was perhaps the fi...

Wartime US Presidents

authority in this area. While they are technically supposed to get Congressional approval to declare war, the facts show that over...