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United States Senate Presidential Candidate
1,592 wordsThroughout much of his life in politics, Pinchot's name had been occasionally thrown around as a possible Presidential candidate. It never happened. He was eventually elected to public office as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922, largely through the support of rural counties and the new women's vote. During his 1923 - 1927 administration, his major goals were the regulation of electric power companies and the enforcement of Prohibition. In a crusade for "clean politics, " he reorganized state gov...
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Rules And Regulations Sexual Harassment
680 wordsEnglish 110 Letter to the Editor University of Abuse, Why are Star Athletes Getting Away with Sexual Assault? by Jan Goodwin. Glamour, October 2000. I am glad that this issue was addressed. There are thousands of young women who are raped everyday on college campuses and, are unable to have justice served to them. There are not enough laws protecting young women today in the event of a rape. Not too many people want to hear the confessions of a rape victim. It is so important that they are heard...
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U S Foreign Policy U S Government
1,212 wordsThe Importance of Oil In U. S. Foreign Policy During the oil and energy crisis of the mid- 1970 s Americans became painfully aware of the consequences of the United States dependence on foreign sources of oil. Unfortunately, research and exploration for alternative sources of oil in North America has not been pursued vigorously enough to cease such foreign dependence. As a result, in the mid- 1990 s Americans find themselves in the same precarious position as they were during the 1970 s. The Per...
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Presidential Debate Racial Profiling
1,167 wordsRepublican Dick Cheney and Democrat Joseph Lieberman confronted each other Thursday night in their only vice presidential debate, disagreeing pointedly but politely over taxes, energy and military readiness The vice presidential debate took place on October 06, 2000 at at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The moderator is Bernad Shaw. They covered the positions discussed in the presidential debate and introduced new ones as well the rights of homosexuals, racial profiling and so on but its quite c...
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Containment Early Cold War
1,000 wordsIn the early years of the Cold War, both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations pursued a policy of containment to counter perceived Soviet aggression. Generally, the presidential administrations pursued this policy to maintain stability in the international arena, to maintain a balance of power, and also in a sense, to express disapproval of totalitarian, non-democratic regimes. Containment was expressed through a variety of policies and institutions: economic, political and, of course, mili...
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Pentagon Papers Richard Nixon
999 wordsWhitewater vs. Watergate. Both are political sandals that have rocked the nation. As Watergate unraveled, many of Nixon's dirty tactics were learned, including assorted lists of enemies (a number of which became targets of IRS tax audits), wiretapping, political sabotage, burglary, blackballing, and smear campaigns. Similarly, as Whitewater unfolded, the scandal appeared to involve more than just an illegal loan. It touched on possible hush money paid to witnesses and includes the acquisition of...
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The Vietnam War Containment Policy Or Change In
933 wordsThe Cold War was born out of the quest for military and ideological supremacy between the United States and Soviet Union at the conclusion of the Second World War. The Vietnam War was a hot conflict which saw the United States exercise their containment strategy which was effectively in place to halt the spread of communism. However at the time of the Vietnam War, the policy of containment had been in place for almost two decades as a result had changed somewhat through different U. S. administr...
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President Of The United States Mount Vernon
1,852 wordsGEORGE WASHINGTON Abstract George Washington was the son of a father who had gone to school in England and several large Virginia estates. Left fatherless at the age of eleven, the boy was shunted between two half brothers and picked up a little irregular schooling in the intervals of learning how to raise tobacco and stock and manage a plantation. He took to surveying in boyhood and decided that it was to be his profession, one that in those days sent a man roving for weeks on end, improvising ...
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Israeli Palestinian Conflict War Against Terrorism
1,647 wordsThe Stakes Terrorism is one of greatest shames and horrors of modern days human conduct. Terrorism has no nationality but most offenders appear to be the representatives of Islamic states. From very ancient times these two religions: Christian and Islamic had controversies and fought for dominance. But terrorism has many other aspects besides the religious and as resent events of terror show these aspects involves much more money and power. Shibley Telhami, who holds the Anwar Sadat chair at the...
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George W Bush University Of Michigan
1,271 wordsAffirmative action is destined to be a hot-button issue in the 2004 campaign one that puts black Republicans in the awkward position of opposing a policy a majority of blacks favor. Many black conservatives say they want to end preferences based solely upon race. Affirmative action in the United States government programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. (The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Al Qaeda Iraq War
2,639 words... a novel doctrine asserted by Ashcroft, were held in secret. Since it is official policy not to deport terrorism suspects, it is unclear what legitimate anti-terror purpose these secret hearings serve. President Bush often complains about Democratic obstructionism, but the truth is that he has made considerable progress, if thats the right word, toward the goal of stocking the federal courts with conservative ideologues. The Senate has confirmed two hundred and one of his judicial nominees, m...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Global Climate Change
772 wordsBush Wont Regulate Carbon Dioxide Updated 7: 30 PM ET March 13, 2001 By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Backing off a campaign pledge, President Bush told Congress Tuesday he will not regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The decision, outlined in a letter sent to a Republican senator, came after furious lobbying from the coal industry. It was a blow to conservationists who see curbing emissions of such greenhouse gases as key to reducing global warming. The...
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Demand For Goods Multinational Corporations
624 wordsClinton Administrations Proposal To Increase Taxes For Clinton Administrations Proposal To Increase Taxes For Multinational Corporations Clinton Administrations Proposal to Increase Taxes for Multinational Corporations My topic is the increase if the taxes which Clinton Administration is planning. This increase in taxes will target multinational Corporations, end the favored tax treatment of extra long term bonds, It will also raise capital gains taxes by? changing the rules for computing the co...
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Chief Of Staff Jimmy Carter
2,030 words&# 65279; The executive branch of our government is like a chameleon. To a startling degree it reflects the character and personality of the President. Clark M. Clifford, 1972 Page 189. Ford was not a natural administrator, but he a was an experienced political professional. His practice was to steer clear of jurisdictional rivalries, avoid having confidants within his cabinet, have private sources of advice outside the cabinet, leave management and program implementation to the department heads...
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Long Term Care Minimum Wage
1,325 wordsHelping Parents Balance Work and Family Today more than ever, parents need support in their efforts to balance their responsibilities at home and at work. From quality child care and after-school programs to long-term care assistance, the First Lady has supported initiatives that help Americans with the most important of all duties, the care of their families. Mrs. Clinton has worked tirelessly to make child care better, safer, and more affordable for Americas working families and to ensure that...
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U S Military Gulf Of Tonkin
1,280 wordsRobert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of controversy, and where our government focused it? s fear of communism for many years. Throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government maintained that the war between the Communist north and the south can only be won by the South Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it for them. It stressed that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of the western wor...
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Politics Power Great Britain Iran
325 wordsPolitics, Power, and Iran 1 Politics, Power, and U. S. Policy in Iran, 1950 - 1953 1 by Francis J. Gavin On 19 August 1953, elements of the Iranian army, acting on orders from the Shah and with covert support from the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), deposed Mohammed Mossadeghs as the Prime Minister of Iran. Mossadeghs overthrow climaxed more than two years of crisis stemming from Iran's clash with Great Britain over the nationalization of the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil company. Ear...
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes Legalization Of Marijuana
607 wordsLegalization of Marijuana During the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations, eight people in the United States were allowed to use marijuana for medicinal purposes under the Compassionate Investigative New Drug program. However, since the Clinton administration no new applications have been accepted. Therefore, other patients who need marijuana to alleviate the nausea and loss of appetite associated with the AIDS viruses and cancer chemotherapy, as well as to treat glaucoma, multiple sclerosis...
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Tonkin Gulf Vietnam War
1,869 wordsPresident Lyndon B. Johnsons immediate advocacy of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, acting as head of state, influenced Congress to unintentionally give him a blank check in conducting the Vietnam War. Johnsons accusation of unjustified attacks on American ships by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin led to the resolutions nearly unanimous passage in Congress three days later. Although with the passage of time the certainty of these attacks has come into question, President Johnson through his...
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Chief Of Staff Abuse Of Power
2,063 wordsWhitewater vs. Watergate. Both are political sandals that have rocked the nation. As Watergate unraveled, many of Nixon's dirty tactics were learned, including assorted lists of enemies (a number of which became targets of IRS tax audits), wiretapping, political sabotage, burglary, blackballing, and smear campaigns. Similarly, as Whitewater unfolded, the scandal appeared to involve more than just an illegal loan. It touched on possible hush money paid to witnesses and includes the acquisition of...
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