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Rodham Clinton Extramarital Affairs
1,057 words
William Jefferson Clinton. He is the most powerful
man in the world. He is also our President.
However, what do we really know about him? With
all the scandals and controversies surrounding
this man and his family, is it possible to ever
really know the truth about him? Perhaps the only
way to do so is to examine the myths surrounding
him, many of them of Clinton's own making, and
delve beneath the surface. One of the most well
known scandals surrounding Bill Clinton is the
marijuana issue. Duri...
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House Judiciary Committee Obstruction Of Justice
1,543 words
Merriam-Webster defines morality as conformity to
ideals of right human conduct what could have
raised eyebrows thirty years ago may very well be
commonly acceptable today. Scandals are framed in
the context of what is socially acceptable
behavior. The majority of presidents of the United
States have endured or faced some sort of scandal
during their terms of office. One recent
wrongdoing, however, stands out in the minds of
many Americans. William Jefferson Clinton faced
what is probably the mo...
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History Of The Clinton Sex Scandal
1,194 words
... rican attitudes toward presidential scandal
may have arrived at yet another level in the late
1990 s. "Perhaps we " ve reached a point where
Americans really do compartmentalize to separate
the president's public actions from his personal
life", says Larry Berman, a political science
professor at the University of California, Davis.
"Today the voters realize they have a human being
in the White House who has the same shortcomings
and foibles that we all have, " Davis adds. "It's
like Melrose...
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History Of The Clinton Sex Scandal
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... ns, it seems that the Lewinsky affair is the
"Little Scandal that Couldn't. " Yet the press,
for all its high minded condemnations of
Clintonian morality, certainly cannot look to
anyone but itself for the public's current lack of
concern, since their focus has in some ways
created the problem. The implications of the
Lewinsky affair for Clinton have boiled down to
two separate issues. The moral issue of Clinton's
affair with Lewinsky is quite different from
potential presidential obstructio...
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Feel That This Is One Ideals And Values Clinton
1,170 words
... his approach Clinton believed he understood
the limits of government, but, upon gaining office
he attempted to launch an, 'ambitious personal and
public agenda' (68). 'Character integrity reflects
our fidelity to our own ideals as we pursue our
ambitions and forge out identities' (69).
Realistically and psychologically a president must
be committed to his own ideals and values. It
seems to be very important that a president's
integrity reflects his ability to maintain
boundaries. Renshon ult...
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Post Cold War George W Bush
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Recent U. S. Foreign Policy How far and to what
cost militarily to pursue human rights and
idealism in the name of democracy and justice; how
far to pursue self-interest in the name of power,
advantage, and security, were to be challenges of
foreign policy and decision faced by presidents
Ronald Reagan in El Salvador, Grenada, Lebanon,
and Nicaragua; by George Bush in Panama and the
Gulf War; by Bill Clinton in Somalia, Bosnia,
Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo; buy George Bush in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Indeed...
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Bob Dole Billion Dollars
5,071 words
People understand they cant get all these tax
cuts, protect their favorite programs, and balance
the budget, says Susan Tanaka speaking on the
promises made by presidential candidate Bob Dole
to the American public (Gibbs 1996). Bob Dole
proposed his tax cut package on Aug. 5, 1996
hoping to entice the public into voting for him in
the 1996 presidential elections. Dole focuses his
proposal towards social conservatives and supply
sider's believing he will give them their link to
growth-oriented t...
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Partial Birth Abortions Cases Of Rape
1,249 words
How Dole Could Have Used The Issues To His
Advantage In a more or less conservative country,
the more or less conservative candidate, Bob Dole,
should have been a lock for the presidency; the
only problem was President Clinton. Clinton had
moved rightward positioning himself between Newt
Gingrichs zealous revolutionaries on the right and
liberal democratic barons on the left. Clintons
speeches started sounding like a Republican was
giving them. Bob Dole had followed the Nixon
ideology of going s...
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George W Bush Saudi Arabia
994 words
William Jefferson Clinton, by far the MOST
controversial President of our Time On January 20,
1993, our current presiding president, William J.
Clinton was sworn into office. For the past six
years, one of the most flamboyant presidencies has
been lived out and still continues to this very
day. In the eyes of some Bill Clinton has been a
savior to the United States, while others openly
consider him the Anti-Christ. Either way, he has
put us all on the track we are on now. Bill? s
first changes w...
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Houses Of Congress Balance The Budget
2,864 words
Government Spending How money is used, raised, and
wasted in Washington As many Federal departments
and agencies lurch into an era of running without
funds, the leaders of both parties of Congress are
spending less and less time searching for a
compromise to balance the budget, and more and
more time deciding how to use it to their
advantage on the campaign trail. Meanwhile money
is easily borrowed to pay for government overhead.
In an attempt to change this, on June 29, Congress
voted in favor ...
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Counter Narcotics Efforts Expanded Academic Asap
3,482 words
Clinton Administration Foreign Drug Policy In
Colombia Clinton Administration Foreign Drug
Policy In Colombia Since the introduction of
narcotics in the United States, American society
has felt the effects of drug use in all aspects of
daily living. As drug use heightened to new levels
in the 1980 s the Bush Administration chose to
declare a " war" on drugs. Never before
in our history had crime been combated with war.
This war led to the militarization of the United
States tactics for...
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Health Care System York Times
1,862 words
The Clinton Health Plan The health care situation
in the United States is in dire need of a change.
The United States spends more money on health care
per individual than any other nation in the world
(14 %of its GNP in 1991), and that amount is
quickly rising. Virtually everyone, from doctors
to politicians, recognize the unwieldy situation
of health care in America, and realize that
something must be done. In order to attempt to
correct the failures of the current health care
situation, one mu...
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Hillary Clinton Plea Bargain
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Watergate The Watergate affair signifies the web
of political scandals that plagued President
Richard M. Nixon from 1972 until his resignation
in 1974. On June 17, 1972, during the presidential
campaign of that year, Washington, D. C. , police
officers arrested seven employees of the Committee
to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), as they were
breaking into the Democratic National Committees
headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex.
Details soon emerged from the break-in news
stories as well...
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Gun Control Legislation Gun Laws
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Present Day Gun Control In the wake of the deadly
rampage at Columbine High School, Americans are
demanding major change. They want school shootings
to end. They are tired of hearing about the
thousands of gun deaths each year. The demand for
action, reflected in the polls for years, is
finally being heard in Washington. (? Hot Buttons?
) President Bill Clinton addressed the need for
more gun control policies in his State of the
Union Address at the beginning of the year. He
proposed many ideas ...
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Long Term Care Minimum Wage
1,325 words
Helping 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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Persian Gulf War Monroe Doctrine
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The United States as a World Power: How long will
we be the policeman? The United States has been a
super power for decades, and since America has
always involved themselves in other countries
problems. Instead of isolationism, the country has
practiced getting involved. Since the Monroe
Presidency, America has been named the World s
police force. Dispelling anarchists, and stopping
coos, the united states portrays itself as the
world protector. Since Monroe, some Americans have
felt that isolat...
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Kofi Annan Madeline Albright
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Rwanda The prime Rwanda Michael Bloom Rwanda The
prime minister of Rwanda Agathe Uwilingiyimana was
brutally murdered in front of her family. She was
at home when government soldiers overwhelmed the
troops protecting her. In front of her family she
was told to take off her clothes and spread her
legs, she did both without argument. She was then
stabbed in her vagina until the bayonets came
through her neck. The prime minister? s husband
and mother were also killed; her kids did manage
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Englewood Cliffs Nj Prentice Cliffs Nj Prentice Hall
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1) In Psychological Perspectives on Politics,
Carol Barner-Barry and Robert Rosenwein discuss
the processes of negotiation and bargaining. Often
times, these two can be dealt with as almost the
same thing. They both incorporate the same basic
principles and are used to achieve a goal. Cases
of negotiation and bargaining have some basic
characteristics, such as the fact that they both
sides are engaged in a decision making over some
area of conflict. They are also trying to resolve
this conflict ...
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President Of The United States Monica Lewinsky
879 words
In January of 1998, President William Clinton;
forty third president of the United States, was
publicly accused of monogamy while in the office
of presidency. The accusations were made by a
female Whitehouse Intern named Monica Lewinsky.
Lewinsky, whom was a Whitehouse Intern, claims to
have had sex with President Clinton in the Oval
Office of the Whitehouse. These accusations
shocked the American public, but in recent polls
that asked if Americans believed President
Clinton, the polls were spli...
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Presidential Debate Bob Dole
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In the article, The Trouble With Character from
Time magazine, writer Richard Stengel describes
Bob Dole s attacks on President Bill Clinton s
character during the second Presidential debate
and explains why Dole s criticisms did not affect
Clinton. Stengel begins the article by discussing
how American parents do not want their children to
aspire to become President as much as they used
to. Most Americans feel that someone else should
do the job, and this person is no moralistic
model. Stengel s...
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