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Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Private and Public Lives of Lyndon Johnson

In eight pages Lyndon Johnson is examined in a consideration of the texts Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Go...

A History of Blacks in America From the Oppression of Slavery to the Civil Rights' Movement

direction that this country would ultimately take. They were also critical elements in determining the ultimate fate of the Afric...

U.S. Constitution and the Rights of States

In six pages this paper discusses the Constitution's awarding of states' rights but how the Civil War, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New...

Significant Events in American History between the late 1950s and 2002

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

Vietnam Policies of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon

the US response on a "day-to-day basis," seldom examining the overall implications of his actions (Herring, 1979, p. 107). However...

Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...

Robert Caro's Years of Lyndon Johnson

The road to power Lyndon Johnson traveled is examined in this analysis of the thesis presented by Robert Caro in Years of Lyndon J...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Reflections on the First Amendment

burned an American flag, so although he did not literally speak, his act is still a form of protest. The facts are these: during t...

US Supreme Court Case of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

The Court issued a divided opinion, striking down the seizure order. The decision was 6-3, but 3 of the 6 justices wrote concurri...

'Right to Die' Case of Nancy Cruzan and the U.S. Government

In a report consisting of five pages former Attorney General and Edwin Meese and late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan a...

Negotiation Style Comparisons Between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon

In twelve pages this paper compares the negotiating styles of the Kennedy administration's executive committee during the 1962 Cub...

Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Civil Rights

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

Nixon's Piano by Kenneth O'Reilly

This paper critiques Kenneth O'Reilly's text in a consideration of the comingling between politics and race in the United States w...

LBJ and Clinton More Than Decades Apart

are pervaded with a sense of innocence violated" (pp. 6). In fact, in a pre-release review presented in The New Republic, Lane com...

A Review of The Final Days by Authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In this five paper paper the writer explores the captivating book by Woodward and Bernstein. The focus is the final days of the N...

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Wartime US Presidents

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

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sexual Harassment

In five pages this paper presents the history of a sexual harassment case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and discusses w...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Effective Weapon of Nonviolence and Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the factors that fueled the civil rights movement including 'Jim Crow' laws and the Supreme Cour...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

Twilight of the Presidency by George Reedy

power because he placed himself above the law in authorizing the Watergate break-in. The tapes from the Nixon White House show a m...