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When she was First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy achieved a life beyond her wildest dreams. She had the love of the most powerful man in the world, a mansion with a staff of servants, a fleet of limousines, airplanes, and helicopters, round the clock security, a wardrobe created by her own couturier, and the adoration of…

been accused by some historians of being the closest thing America ever had to a dictator or monarch (Onuf, 1993). Such strong accusations should be examined in the context of the era in which Mr. Adams lived and served. A closer examination of the historical events occurring during his vice presidency and his term as…

THEODORE ROOSEVELTTheodore Roosevelt was more than just the 26th president of the United States. He was a writer, historian, explorer, big-game hunter, soldier, conservationist, ranchman and Nobel Peace Prize winner. It is not surprising that his life was known as The Strenuous Life. Theodore was born into a wealthy and socially prominent New York family…

IntroductionOn the morning of Tuesday October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was reading the Tuesday morning newspapers in his bed at the Whitehouse. Not twenty fours hours before, McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy’s national security adviser, received the results of Major Richard S. Heyser’s U-2 mission over San Cristobal Cuba. In light of recent mysterious Soviet…

“The Only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”Edmund BurkeThey say time is a great teacher. How true. History has taught us that peace must be kept at all costs. At the end of World War 1, the common goal between the victorious nations throughout the world was…

Woodrow WilsonPresident Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of thepeople. “No one but the President,” he said, “seems to beexpected . . . to look out for the general interests of the country”(Internet1). He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted internationalleadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed…

osed to be an easy position to ascertain. The Founding Fathers went to great lengths when they met in Philadelphia to establish a system that would ensure no man would have the ability to be elected who was not in the best interests of the United States. The electoral college system – a check on…

Brooks RockwellPOSC 423Asignment #1Presidential Use of ForceWhen the framers of the Constitution constructed the executive branch of government, they envisioned a president with certain limited powers. Having delegated to the president a specific type of authority, the framers would probably be surprised to see that they had actually created a rather dynamic officer. The presidency…

Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington. Little. 1967George WahingtonGeorge Washington was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. Heserved as commander-in-chief of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, and laterserved as the first president of the United States. His thoughts and ideas helped mold the UnitedStates into the great country that…

Both John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were elected to Congress in 46, a year inwhich the New Deal took a serious beating as the Republicans regained control ofCongress on the slogan “Had Enough?” Nixon of course, had campaignedagainst incumbent Jerry Voorhis on an anti-New Deal platform, but it’s oftenforgotten that when JFK first ran…