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President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Russia Under Putin

Putin has been methodical in the manner in which he has insured that Russias energy resources are under state control. Having acco...

Foreign or Domestic Policy: Which is Easier?

Behind" legislation and the new Medicare prescription drug coverage (Canes-Wrone, Howell and Lewis). In contrast, his foreign pol...

Portrait of a President

with church leaders to encourage them to help the poor and disadvantaged in their communities, and to end abortion. I am deeply sy...

Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...

Assessing Wal-Mart's Supply Chain

sales and inventory needs. Suppliers Wal-Mart purchases most of its products directly from producers. As the worlds larges...

The American Presidency

1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConno...

A Re-evaluation of the John Adams Presidency

The laws were not popular and while they had been reversed by Congress for the most part, or were simply not renewed, Adams was co...

Why Hillary Clinton Should Become President

have been occupied by a Bush or a Clinton for 24 (or 28) years" (p. 8). Then he asks whether or not it matters (Kristof, 2008). W...

GEORGE BUSH AND HIS LEGACY

received negative response from allies (America, 2008). With little support from anyone, the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 -- and with...

American Political Thought: A Look at the Presidency of Ronald Reagan

did. He was so confident in his vision, that people automatically would trust in the things he said. In reviewing his stint as pr...

CINDY SHEEHAN, GEORGE BUSH AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

President Bush opted to simply avoid it, hoping the whole thing would go away (Independent, 2005). In a sense, the Bush administra...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Presidential Persuasion

status provide bargaining advantage. The U.S. has a government where there is a sharing of power (Neustadt, 2008). That is, there ...

Ronald Reagan, the Most Effective President Since 1950

federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us... need to be reminded that the federal government...

The Presidency and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson

and 1776, and there he would write the Declaration of Independence ("Thomas Jefferson," 2007). In 1786, he helped to author a bill...

The Role Congress Plays in Influencing Foreign Policy

Although, as we shall see, there are some temporary exceptions; the legislative branch typically approves or disapproves the actio...

President Jimmy Carter

based lawyer Cyrus Vance became Carters secretary of state. He bluntly condemned the d?tente foreign policy developed by Presiden...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Richard Nixon: A Favorable View of a Complicated Man

fact that Nixons reign in the presidential office marked a critical point in history, that time when such qualities as honor and i...

Why Thomas Jefferson Was a Great President

is a sincere form of flattery. Still, no living politician is compared with Jefferson on the whole. Few can even compare with the ...

Designing a New Political System

can stand for election, telling the electorate what they stand for any their policies. The electorate will then vote for the perso...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Article Critiques

torture, obviously having taken place since 9/11 as it involves the United States and terrorists, is now undergoing a new perspect...

The United Nations: Overview

easing poverty and supporting economic development; agricultural development and fisheries; education; family planning; emergency ...

The Carters and Their Work With Habitat for Humanity

" Another thing is that some of the projects that we undertake now, either in the Carter Center or through the Habitat for Humanit...

Parliament or President?

Parliamentary government evolved in Great Britain, and "is today practiced in most of Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, India, and ma...

2 Memos to WhiteRiver Telecom Vice President of New Business Development on AT&T China

were wide open and none more than China where the telecommunications infrastructure was practically nonexistent outside major citi...

Using Neo-Aristotelian Criticism to Evaluate Bush's Speech

This 3 page paper uses neo-Aristotelian criticism to analyze one of President Bush's speeches, the one in which he "made the case"...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...