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JFK and MLK Gone Too Soon

international community. Some of the wilder theories were that the Soviets were behind the shooting, and there were fears that it ...

The 2009 Economy and President Obama's Performance

Republican President Bush, Barack Obama does have some clear policies that can help the U.S. get back on track. In evaluating Bara...

U.S./China Relations and the Administration of President Barack Obama

of the American debt. The Obama administration needs to formulate a concise and impartial view of the Chinese military and satisf...

Reforming Education

dollar program, "funded through the Recovery Act," that encourages competition among the states "to inspire education reform" (de ...

More Troops to Afghanistan

power in the region (Obama, 2009). Unfortunately, as U.S. attention turned to Iraq (which Obama opposed from the outset), b...

Are Good Leaders Likely to be Tall?

In 1924, 1970 and 1976 the US elections for president were not won by the tallest candidate, in the others the tallest candidate h...

LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND BARACK OBAMA

no novice in many areas - Lucas points out that his intelligence is "widely admired" as are his "guts and intelligence . . . to ch...

Obama's Speech to Schoolchildren

of the speech ahead of time. Regardless of what may or may not have been intended, the speech was benign and contained not even a...

Leadership Achievements of JFK

breathe new life into the ailing American space program, appealing to Uncle Sams love of competition. He made frequent references...

THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT: IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES FOR "SPIN"

be taken into account. 1) Medias impact on the voter. Its difficult to determine what influence the media actually has on ...

Grand Illusion of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Program

which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

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...

How Bush Could Be a Better President as a Position Paper

Taxpayers suffer because they have to foot the welfare bill to support those who are out of work. Secondly, the health care cris...

Progressive Movement and Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

open society where mankind was neither chained to the past nor condemned to a deterministic future" (Woo, 1995, p. 01B). Perhaps ...

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...

President Harry Truman's Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

sections of Tokyo. By July of 1945, Japan was ready to surrender, but feared, because of Roosevelts insistence on unconditional su...

Health Care Policies of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Bill Clinton

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

Economics and Lasting Influences of U.S. Presidents

the second of what would become fairly regular Fireside Chats, FDR (1933) went directly to the American people via radio to outlin...

George W. Bush

tell a friend, "I have to be with my mother - shes so unhappy" (Thomas and Brant 32). Bush would later use this same compassion t...

Future Defined by the Progressive Policies of U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

transplanted immigrants as culturally or racially inferior merely because they were not of American heritage (Berkin PG). O...

Downward Economic Spiral of France and Germany

been able to be used to help control the economy. Experts furthermore point out that even a mild inflation in Germany would...

Analyzing Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians in an 1930 Message to Congress

away to make room for the whites" If this were the case then why was...

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...

Post 1960 Public Speaking Changes

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

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...

Debate on FDR's New Deal of the 1930s

Of course, the taxes which go to Social Security are not exactly set aside for the individual per se, but people are provided with...