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… President Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford, had three … A high school and then college student during Ford's presidency, Susan was a favorite subject for the press. She … was certainly one of the most athletic of all the nation's Presidents. He exercised with weights every day in his White …
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… leaders who were against John Adams's run for the presidency. Adams served as vice president under Washington. As was the aristocratic custom of …
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… American people have remembered him as one of the greatest presidents in the nation’s history. The name of the Capitol … Washington inspired made possible the creation of the presidency and helped establish the executive branch. Once in … of political provocations, and attempted to serve as a president for all citizens (which admittedly meant white …
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… Harry S. Truman became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. … rights. Historians now rank Truman among the nation's best Presidents. Student and Soldier Harry Truman was a child of … one term, was defeated for a second, and then became presiding judge in 1926, a position he held until 1934. As …
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… end of the year, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president. Public reaction to his candidacy revealed that … States. A political insider, he was appointed to the vice presidency by Richard Nixon and consented to by the Congress …
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… During his presidency, President Bush devoted much of his time to foreign affairs, an area over which Presidents generally have more latitude than they do with …
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… The Campaign and Election of 1868: President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at the end of the … Grant claimed that he had little interest in the presidency, but popular demand for his candidacy was too …
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… always been central to him, from his childhood through his presidency. By his own account, he has few close friends … been married three times and divorced twice, the only US president with that marital history. Republican president … to have been divorced and re-married, while a number of presidents married for a second time (three did so while in …
Donald Trump has stated throughout his life that family has always been central to him...
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… their personal reputations. Sixty-nine votes were cast for president; they were unanimous for George Washington. The … to crumble. Washington’s primary goal was to establish the presidency on firm footing, cultivate respect from citizens …
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… announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President. He faced three main opponents for the … gained seats in both houses of Congress. Bush began his presidency with the Democrats controlling both the House of …
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… he dismayed Republican Party leaders who thought the President owed them cabinet positions for their support in … segment of the American public? In the beginning of his presidency, Grant continued the policies of congressional …
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… farm—with unassuming austerity. His would be no "imperial presidency" like those of Johnson and Nixon. On inauguration … Relations with Congress The country desperately wanted the president to succeed. Carter took a series of bold positions. … during his term. Despite the lip service paid by American presidents to reducing energy dependence, US oil imports had …
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… After taking the oath of office to become the thirty-eighth President of the United States, Gerald Ford forthrightly … player, Ford was certainly one of the most athletic Presidents in history. These negative portrayals, however, … public. Pardoning Richard Nixon Ford's ascent to the presidency implicitly promised the end of the Watergate …
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… 1953 to 1961. Kennedy was the youngest person elected US president and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office. For many observers, his presidency came to represent the ascendance of youthful …
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… be said that Franklin Pierce had little business being President, but in a nation fragmenting over slavery, only a … slavery and the aggressiveness of Southerners. But other Presidents were unable to solve these issues, short of war. …
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… of America during the American Civil War. As a two-term President, he is typically dismissed as weak and ineffective; historians have often ranked Grant's presidency near the bottom in American history. Recently, … freed the enslaved people, and saved the Republic. Grant presided over a powerful if unstable economy unleashing …
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… whom one reads, Polk comes across as either a nearly great President or as a man who missed great opportunities. … a representative of the whole people. Polk came into the presidency with a focused political agenda and a clear set of …
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… Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was the dominant actor in … most venerable political organization. During his two-term presidency, he expanded executive powers and transformed the …
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… 35 percent of those surveyed supported his handling of the presidency. Beginning in 1947, Truman worked assiduously to … 1948, Truman's former secretary of commerce (and vice president during Roosevelt's third term), Henry Wallace, …
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