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… in 1856, but when the Democratic ticket was successful, President James Buchanan tapped Brown as his postmaster …
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… governor, serving from 1843 to 1847. Two years later, President Zachary Taylor tapped Crawford as his secretary of …
Presidential Biographies
… became assistant secretary of war (1923-24), and later, on President Coolidge's succession to office, secretary of war …
Presidential Speeches
… Third, the authorization of the appointment by the President of a small body of men to observe actual results in …
Presidential Biographies
… During Andrew Johnson's presidency, the composition of the American electorate …
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… This was neither an oversight nor an accident: President Lincoln insisted Southern secession was not a war, … Numerous military leaders and quite a few American presidents—the people actually ordering and performing the …
State-sanctioned, organized armed conflict has been so regular the nation’s history that it is probably better to refer to Afghanistan as only our latest longest war.
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… good relations with Vietnam today. What kept American presidents, from Kennedy to Nixon, from exiting Vietnam … still the most influential foreign country in Algeria, and President Macron has gone so far as to condemn France’s … Iraq rose up against Saddam, as they had been urged by President George H. W. Bush to do and were then massacred by …
Reassessing goals, a changing strategic environment, and shifts in domestic political opinion generally bring a halt to seemingly intractable conflicts.
Public Events
… President Kennedy's famous call to service, "Ask not what …
Presidential Recordings
… 1971 Time: 11:05 am - 11:38 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen B. Bull and David M. Kennedy; the … General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. entered at 11:06 am President’s speech on Southeast Asia, April 7, 1971 27 NIXON …
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… Tet Offensive and growing public protest of the war, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration was in peril. On … re-election, nor accept his party’s nomination, for the presidency. Although LBJ and the democratic establishment …
Presidential Biographies
… no states extended the vote to women during the Roosevelt presidency, suffragette victories in Wyoming, Colorado, …
Presidential Biographies
… to Lincoln's two minutes, confided afterwards to the President: "My speech will soon be forgotten, yours never …
Presidential Biographies
… as secretary of the treasury in the administration of President George Washington (1795-1800). Wolcott left the …
Presidential Biographies
… he spearheaded the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant for President in that year's presidential election and secured …
Presidential Biographies
… as chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court. In 1844, President John Tyler tapped Bibb to become his secretary of …
Presidential Biographies
… job as postmaster general. Appointed to the position by President Benjamin Harrison, Wanamaker instituted a number of …
Presidential Biographies
… Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield was postmaster general under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to January 20, …
Public Events
… this event will be an occasion to reflect on the 43rd presidency from the perspective of a decade's distance and to …
Public Events
… this event will be an occasion to reflect on the 43rd presidency from the perspective of a decade's distance and to …
Presidential Speeches
… ultimately come before them for their consideration the President secures harmony of action between that body and …