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Primary Colors Political Campaigns
1,253 wordsPrimary Colors opens with a quote be Machiavelli, Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. This is a great statement that sums up a good deal about Jack Stanton, the presidential candidate that this book follows. The handshake is the threshold act of politics and Jack Stanton knows it. He loves to go out, meet the people and shake hands with them. When he lost the New Hampshire primary he was not upset at all. A large number of voters on leaving the polls said the decidin...
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Domestic Policies Minimum Wage
757 wordsThe domestic policies and administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and William Jefferson Clinton are in some ways similar, but in other ways very different. The two men were very domestic-oriented presidents, focusing largely on America, and not the outside world. Both Democrats, they supported Federal Government programs to aid the American People. These programs were not necessary, but the presidents felt that they would aid Americans. Roosevelt created many jobs for the unemployed. He did...
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House Judiciary Committee Obstruction Of Justice
1,543 wordsMerriam-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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Hillary Rodham Bill Clinton
1,603 wordsHillary's Choice, written by Gail Sheehy, has to be one of the most intriguing books I have recently read. Most literary works have the tendency to start off slow, wind up to a climax and finally produce a strong finish. It is not the case you find when you read Hillary's Choice. From the very beginning you are introduced to the scandals that the Clintons have had to endure throughout their lives. That is why the first chapter is labeled as, Into the Flames. You are being taken straight into the...
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Post Cold War George W Bush
1,791 wordsRecent 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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U S House U S Senate
2,596 wordsCompare and Contrast the Presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton The goal of my essay is to compare the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton. Thus, in my essay I will discuss the main steps taken by both the presidents. So, I will enlighten the policy of Andrew Jackson from 1796 and up to the end of his second term of presidency, - to 1837. This period of Jacksons life includes his membership in Tennessee convention, holding a position of the representative in the U. S. House ...
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Why Was Bill Clinton A Good President
1,409 wordsWhy Was Bill Clinton a Good President? I INTRODUCTION A. Attention grabber There is probably no such a person in the whole world that does not know this man. He was born in a little town, called Hope, in rural Arkansas. His father was a traveling salesman, who died in a car crash. After his mother remarried, his younger brother and him were growing up in a family of an alcoholic who abused both their mother and them physically and verbally. You still are not sure who I am talking about? All righ...
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Balance The Budget Win The Election
1,329 wordsBob Dole: A Race to the Top 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 the...
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Bob Dole Billion Dollars
5,071 wordsPeople 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 wordsHow 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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John F Kennedy Perjury And Obstruction
4,683 wordsRare is a person that crosses the path of the White House without some emotion of envy or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedys brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clintons zipper gate scandal. When the President of the United States takes oath, he gives up a part of his life. His p...
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Houses Of Congress Balance The Budget
2,864 wordsGovernment 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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Health Care System York Times
1,862 wordsThe 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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Tobacco Advertising Pay Attention
366 wordsemail: Tobacco Canada has one of the worlds toughest antismoking campaign. They have passed laws against tobacco advertising and have used virtually all of the Presidents proposals against tobacco. Now they are saying that if Clintons proposals do become a law it wont do much good. By 1993 the tobacco taxes in Canada had a pack of cigarettes up to $ 5. 00 a pack. Thanks to these measures, Garfield Manhood, Executive Director of the Toronto based Non-Smokers Rights Association. , said, Canada has...
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Hillary Clinton Plea Bargain
973 wordsWatergate 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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Health Care Reform Ronald Reagan
918 wordsFrom FDRs New Deal to Lyndon Johnsons Great Society, the United States government has attempted to centralize extensive social policies. In the early eighties, when recession and inflation were at a high, Ronald Reagan took office and pronounced that the federal government needed to take a lesser role in the lives of the American people. As Theda Skocpol comments in her book Boomerang: Clintons Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U. S. Politics, the Reagan administration in...
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1950 And 1960 Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
1,835 wordsBy: Kristi Cuschieri Japan &# 038; China Making big news recently was President Clintons visit to China. One important item on his agenda was the human rights issue. Violation of human rights became more of a problem after the Tiananmen Square massacre. It happened in 1989, where pro democracy students in Beijing were shot down. Even though this happened about nine years ago, the rapid police reactions to modern protests show how sensitive the bloody incident still is. Human rights have been def...
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Supposed To Live Rights Of The People
1,671 wordsKosovo Antigona Kosova Liberation Kosovo Antigona Kosova Liberation Army Why Shouldnt the U. S. intervene in Kosova? My response to Patrick Buchanan's article from the NY Post. After reading an article in the October 3 rd edition of the New York Post by Patrick J. Buchanan entitled Why is Kosovo Our War? , I was very frustrated when he asked Why does Serbia not have a right to send its army to prevent the cradle of that country from being ripped away? Serbia was the one that ripped Kosova away f...
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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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Primary Colors Bill Clinton
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