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… He waved off all talk of his being a "temporary" President, claimed that the Constitution gave him the full … for future orderly transfers of power after the deaths of Presidents Taylor, Lincoln, McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, and …
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… White House domestic policy staff in the administration of President Ronald Reagan (1982-1983), returning to private … was sworn in as Attorney General in the administration of President George H. W. Bush; he remained in that post until …
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… 1801 to 1804. Despite having run unsuccessfully for vice president in 1788 and 1792, Clinton ran for the position … his predecessor, Aaron Burr. As vice president, Clinton presided over the Senate but was considered ineffective. He …
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… too premature, and the Democrats who complained that the President had turned the entire U.S. Navy into a campaign … told Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency, 'Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I'm …
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… 1901 and served until 1909, is considered the first modern President because he significantly expanded the influence and … reforms, party bosses "kicked him upstairs" to the vice presidency under William McKinley, believing that in this …
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… were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: … tells us that Abraham Lincoln was the nation's greatest President by every measure applied. Interestingly, had the … activist President in history, Lincoln transformed the President's role as commander in chief and as chief executive …
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… William James Perry served under President Clinton first as deputy secretary of defense … Telephone and Electronics (1954-1964), founded and became president of ESL (1964-1977), served as executive …
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… Benjamin Harrison, who would become America's twenty-third President in 1889. …
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… In 2000, President-elect George W. Bush nominated his campaign … for the oil and gas company of Tom Brown, Inc. He became president of the company five years later and chief executive …
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… for the first time the importance of nominating a vice president who actually was qualified for the presidency. Once in office, many Americans felt that John …
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… Clay heading into the Whig nominating convention, but the presidency would elude Clay yet again. Southern proslavery … and others had formed the Free-Soil Party led by former President Martin Van Buren. It proved to be a close, bitter …
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… days of his life were his entrance into the office of President and his surrender of the office. While his … White House hostess during the last two years of his presidency. His sons, moreover, emerged as some of his …
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… he later supported a constitutional amendment limiting the President to a single six-year term.) He also backed the … one electoral vote shy of the majority needed to win the presidency. But if Hayes carried Florida, Louisiana, and … These were forwarded to Washington to be counted by the presiding officer of the Senate, Republican Thomas W. Ferry, …
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… Theodore Roosevelt is widely regarded as the first modern President of the United States. The stature and influence … the most powerful branch of government. And although the presidency began to amass more power during the 1880s, …
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… Rutherford B. Hayes, America's 19th President, served as chief executive at the end of … and Democrats to claim them—and with those states, the presidency. To decide who carried those states, Congress set …
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… later, he worked for Bryce Harlow, executive assistant to President Nixon. Alexander returned to Tennessee to run for … to serve successive four-year terms. During his time as president of the University of Tennessee (1988-1991), …
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… Most historians rank Harding as the worst of all American Presidents. Recently, some revisionists see him as an … and civil rights. Neither a deep thinker, nor a decisive President, Harding failed, in most opinions, to impact the …
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… of Ware v. Hylton before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1796. President George Washington offered him the post of Attorney … to France, but Marshall declined them both. During the presidency of John Adams, he accepted a post as one of three … of them and the shear breadth of their scope. Marshall presided over the Court for thirty-four years and during that …
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… to continue the custom of serving only two terms as President, James Monroe stood in a commanding position for … of yet another President from Virginia—of the first four Presidents, three had been from the Commonwealth. Monroe's …
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… House, Grover Cleveland became one of the hardest working Presidents ever, doing his own paperwork and routinely … find." After his first two years in office as a bachelor President, Cleveland married Frances Folsom in 1886, becoming … faced a medical scare that threatened to disrupt his presidency. He discovered a lesion in his mouth that his …