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… Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 with a straightforward and … Inaugural Address identified the major themes the new President hoped would define his administration. After noting … to engage Reagan on several crucial matters, adding to the President's detachment from day-to-day decision-making. …
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… Anna Eleanor Roosevelt “never wanted to be a President’s wife.” After discovering her husband’s infidelity …
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… Henry Harrison served the shortest time of any American President—only thirty-two days. He also was the first … of the Indian Territory—present day Indiana and Illinois. Presidents Jefferson and Madison kept him in that position …
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… Barry Goldwater in 1964. The New Deal coalition created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 had been the dominant … to be until the last year of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency in 1968. But in the 1960s, the coalition was … enthusiastically renominated Reagan and Bush in 1984. The President's popularity had risen dramatically since its nadir …
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… When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form … was convinced that within the branches of government, the presidency alone was empowered not only to uphold the …
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… secretaries of state but proved the wrong man for the presidency. Aloof, stubborn, and ferociously independent, he … necessary to push his ideas into policy. His father, President John Adams, had also ignored the political side of … Quincy Adams had one of the most politically active post-presidencies of any U.S. President. Two years after his …
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… inherited from Harding, Coolidge was ready to assume the presidency in his own right. Historically, vice presidents who had finished out their predecessors' terms did … Former Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo of California--President Wilson's son-in-law--fought Governor Alfred E. …
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… his success. Eliza Ballou Garfield, the first mother of a President to attend her son's inauguration, survived her … boys, James, age sixteen, and Irvin, age eleven, kept the President and his wife busy and happy with their youthful …
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… man to succeed Woodrow Wilson, America's most visionary President, would be a man who saw the President's role as largely ceremonial? Warren Harding was … James M. Cox in a massive landslide. Weak and Mediocre Presidency Once in office, Harding admitted to his close …
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… academic world to the realm of public service. That year, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Schlesinger as the … commissions and advisory groups. He served on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1982-1983) and …
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… academic world to the realm of public service. That year, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Schlesinger as the … commissions and advisory groups. He served on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1982-1983) and …
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… academic world to the realm of public service. That year, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Schlesinger as the … commissions and advisory groups. He served on the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (1982-1983) and …
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… instead to establish an investment company. In 1992, President-elect Bill Clinton tapped Peña -- who had advised … Peña had planned to leave Clinton's cabinet after the President's first term, he was persuaded to remain in the …
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… as she used them to gain information for her husband. When President Madison was disabled from sickness in May 1813, …
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… accept. With the Republican Party bitterly divided between President William Taft and former President Theodore … Wilson's actions before and during World War I and briefly presided over the cabinet when Wilson left on a lengthy trip …
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… General Walter F. Brown proved valuable to Hoover as the President's chief connection to (and adviser about) the … Early Months of the Hoover Administration Hoover began his presidency with a burst of energy and enthusiasm that …
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… Harrison was the first Whig to enter office, and the first President to die in office. Harrison's significance in … in the history of America than in the history of its presidency. He is remembered as the most dominant figure in …
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… were politically conscious individuals who greatly admired President Franklin Roosevelt. As a young man, Mondale … to national campaigning, Carter offered him the vice presidency. As a northern liberal with Washington experience, …
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… of experience in international affairs when he became President in March 1929. He had traveled the world … to craft American foreign policy during the Hoover presidency. Hoover's Depression Diplomacy Hoover's attempts …
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… Roosevelt took the oath of office in September 1901, he presided over a country that had changed significantly in … assassination, Roosevelt pledged to maintain the fallen President's policies so as not to upset the nation in a time … had passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, former Presidents had only used it sparingly. So when the Department …