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… cut taxes. They worked together to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which President Trump signed in December 2017. That … nationalists assembled in Charlottesville, Virginia, for what was known as the “Unite the Right” rally. Violence …

Donald Trump’s domestic priorities largely reflected the themes he campaigned on...

Franklin Pierce: The American Franchise

… often with blacks, for tedious, back-breaking, menial jobs unwanted by native-born white Americans. Most of these … entrenched Protestant Americans were unnerved by what they perceived as a threat to American values. Catholics …

Harry S. Truman: The American Franchise

… and women of color. Moreover, these women often took jobs that paid poorly, offered fewer chances for advancement, … an often intellectually and emotionally stultifying life, what the author Betty Friedan called "the problem with no … In the north, Blacks found both more freedoms and better jobs, though they still encountered racial discrimination and …

Dwight D. Eisenhower: The American Franchise

… million births each year. Family Life During the Baby Boom What accounted for the rapid growth in population was that … to hire women because they expected them to quit their jobs once they married and had children. Contemporary …

Dolley Madison

… perks, responsibilities, and the criticism inherent in the job and was the first presidential spouse to fully embrace … Dolley Madison who assumed, under difficult circumstances, what traditionally had been a man's responsibility. Working …

William Taft: Life Before the Presidency

… presidency. Taft was hesitant to take this challenging job, in a distant corner of the world, but Republican leaders … Additionally, political opposition was growing to what critics charged were McKinley's imperialist policies. … Nellie, surprised and overjoyed, urged Taft to take the job. The two traveled with their three children to the …

Richard B. Cheney (1989–1993)

… and declined to hire him. Cheney eventually landed a job in the office of Republican William Steiger of Wisconsin. … lost the 1992 election, and both Cheney and his wife took jobs as senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute. … back to Wyoming to comply with constitutional law. What he did bring to the ticket was a wealth of experience …

Richard B. Cheney

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Domestic Affairs

… Alvin Hansen, admitted in 1940 that "I really do not know what the basic principle of the New Deal is." Part of this … to stabilize the U.S. financial system, provide relief and jobs to the suffering, and reenergize America's capitalist …

Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson

… path," especially since "There are no requirements of the job...you do what makes your heart sing." She recognized that it was the … Indeed, Lady Bird believed that "as a public figure, my job is to help my husband do his job." To that end, she read …

Ulysses S. Grant: Domestic Affairs

… who wanted the federal government to stay out of what they considered internal state affairs, were only too … Southerners into a Republican Party dedicated to creating jobs and solid businesses in the defeated region. However, it … and his treasury secretary, George Boutwell, realized what was at stake, they ordered the sale on Friday, September …

Richard Nixon: Life Before the Presidency

… achievements were not enough, however, to get him the jobs he applied for with the Federal Bureau of Investigation … back east, as a law professor's recommendation got Nixon a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington, … Denigrative Method As a campaigner, Nixon mastered early what historian Garry Wills called "The Denigrative Method" …

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The American Franchise

… nevertheless, they were able to vote and had better job opportunities. In the South, blacks were disfranchised, … survive. In Northern and Southern cities, blacks saw their jobs—which were usually of the entry level, low paying, and … Angeles. The police and military refused to intervene in what became known as the "zoot suit riots." The police, in …

John F. Kennedy: The American Franchise

… era. In 1963, President Kennedy initiated planning for what became the “War on Poverty.” He took these measures … and actively prevented from obtaining good educations or jobs, victimized by criminals on the streets (and by …

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Domestic Affairs

… about how to maintain prosperity or how much to spend on what we today call "infrastructure." Protecting freedom and … provide necessary assistance to workers who had lost their jobs or to the ill or aged, who through no fault of their … and Cleveland because new farm machines had taken away job opportunities. Often these new African American urban …

Warren G. Harding: Life in Brief

… in office, Harding admitted to his close friends that the job was beyond him. The capable men that Harding appointed to … blond thirty years younger than the President, was given a job in Washington, D.C., so that she could be near Harding. … people and explain his policies. After becoming ill with what was at the time attributed to ptomaine (food) poisoning, …

Lyndon B. Johnson: Foreign Affairs

… of Congress. "I can't get out, I can't finish it with what I have got. So what the hell do I do?" he lamented to Lady Bird. Johnson … "They call upon the U.S. to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do." But the President was full of …

James A. Garfield: The American Franchise

… other hand, more frequently defined themselves in terms of what they opposed rather than what they supported. Most Democrats rejected government … voted and to punish disloyal voters with the loss of jobs and other forms of political intimidation. Most voters …

Barack Obama: Impact and Legacy

… rather than launching additional wars. How long and in what form Obama’s policy changes will endure remains to be … actions by his successors in the presidency. Obama’s job approval rating in polls of the American people rose …

Elizabeth "Betty" Ford

… that whether it was "a career in the home or outside, what is important is that she make that decision … who had a career, believing "[a]nyone who feels good about what she's doing in the home should have the same sense of liberation" as someone with a job outside the home. Not only did Betty believe housewives …