The Final Days : The Last Desperate Abuses Of Power By The Clinton White House

Barbara Charline Jordan contributed many things to help equality for African-Americans and to put an impact on society. She was a lawyer, educator, and was the first African-American women from the south to join Congress. Ever since she was in high school, Barbara had been a very talented public speaker. As a result of being such an inspirational speaker, she gave the opening speech for President Nixon impeachment hearing in 1974. Barbara’s time in Congress ended after three terms and became a professor and policy advocate.

President Bill Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, in 1995. Later in 1998, when confronted with questions in regards to an affair with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton lied under oath in front of a grand jury. This, however, was not his first lapse in judgment as viewed by the Senate and Congress. The President and his wife, Hillary, found themselves involved in the Whitewater scandal beginning in 1978. In addition, during his campaign, Clinton was accused of draft dodging and rumors were spread in regards to his possible marriage infidelity. President Bill Clinton continued to find himself caught in the middle of scandals involving: Whitewater, Paula Jones, and most notably, Monica Lewinsky. The way Clinton handled

The government of the United States controls countless affairs in the world. They control everything from the currency to the court systems. Individuals are suppose to be able to trusting your government system, which has not been the case in many different circumstances. From Richard Nixon to the Whitewater scandal, the government has been everything but honest.

A tragic hero is a person who is adored or praised by the public eye but then chooses an action that eventually leads to his or her’s own destruction. These kind of heroes have been around for an extreme amount of time. A tragic hero is most commonly heard of in a novel or epic, but there have been many historical tragic heroes throughout the real world. Every continent, every country, and even every state has had at least one real life tragic hero in their midst. The United State’s dealt with a tragic hero when they elected former president Bill Clinton into office. Clinton, who use to be known for his intelligence and great speaking abilities, is now known for his scandalous acts in the White House.

Tamar Keith, National Public Radio White House Correspondent, was a guest speaker at the University of Houston and spoke about Congressional Women’s Softball League, the slow but steady rise of women in Congress and her experience as a woman in the media.

The Arab- Israeli Conflict was and still is a big issue. Many people have been involved in this conflict in the past. When BIll Clinton was president he had a semi big role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

Republican candidate, George H.W. Bush, had lost the 1992 presidential election to a young Democrat from Arkansas, Bill Clinton. Clinton was somewhat of a dark horse candidate. He survived a giant sex scandal during his election, however, a third party run by Ross Perot split the vote and in 1993, Clinton was inaugurated. Clinton's foreign policy agenda, included the Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO and NATO action in the Balkans. Successes and failures of the Clinton presidency included the failed attempt at health care reform, the very horrible attempt on LGBT issues, mixed feelings on the welfare reform and the more uplifting issues such as the huge improvements made in the economy. Also, computers were blowing up with the public

When I heard about the riot and massacre that had occurred in Clinton one hundred years ago, I was left in complete shock. I had never before heard about these events. They weren’t told in my history classes. We never covered them whenever we talked about events that happened in Mississippi. So, when Thursday came and I sat and heard about what had happened I was left intrigue and wanting to know more.The event started off with former Mayor Walter Howell, who is the official historian of Clinton, telling an account of what had happened. He paraphrased the history of things, yet, he left things accurate and precise.

During his time as president, Bill Clinton helped pass a variety of legislation that greatly impacted the country in several ways including creating a budget surplus and signing an act that encouraged much stricter sentencing for criminals. Two pieces of legislation that highlight positive and negative aspects of Clintons presidency are the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The former, the first budget passed by the president, increased taxes for high earners and created “an earned income tax credit for incomes under $30,000”(UC Berkeley). This helped to create budget surpluses for much of the 1990’s. The latter, one of the more controversial bills passed by Clinton, contained many provisions that served as harsh punishment for the crimes rather than rehabilitation (Lussenhop). This act impacted the already high incarceration rate and did not address at-risk communities where economic resources were badly needed. Both of these acts impacted the public in different ways, the budget aided low income families with its income tax credit while the violent crime act added to the budding mass incarceration problem in the United States and failed to address the problems in low income communities(Lussenhop). As president, Bill Clinton served as a good representative who supported the virtue of fair-mindedness. Even though some of his actions were not in accordance with the virtue, such as the Violent Crime Control

Congresswoman Lee’s Leadership positions include the Chair of the Whip Task Force of Poverty, Income Inequality and Opportunity, as well as the Co-Founder and Co- Chair of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus. She is also the Former Co-Chair and Current Whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, The Vice-Chair and Founding Member of the LGBT Equality Caucus, and finally, the Co-Chair on the Asian Pacific American Caucus Health Care Task Force. Lee was also a US Representative to the United Nations 68th and 70th General Assemblies (2014 and 2016), where she focused on the advancement of women’s rights (Barbara Lee ‘Committees and Caucuses’, retrieved from https://lee.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses).

Within a few days of Ann Blackmans’ Seasons of Her Lfe: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright being completed, she knew one thing for certain of who she would be writing about next and it was that “she would be long dead”. In her search she finds interest in a distinguished member of Washington who was beautiful, intelligent, and forthright. Before she knew it, she had become completely captivated by the life of Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Through extensive research and being the first to use the diary of Rose, Ann Blackman tells this mesmerizing true story of the vital role one woman played in the Civil War as a Confederate spy.

Nonetheless, due to the exposure of the Nixon administration’s corrupt activities in addition to the President’s graceless resignation, the public and the news media scrutinized the backgrounds of people who sought power more carefully. A positive outcome of Watergate was the successful national movement for government transparency: to make meetings and records more accessible to the public. In 1974, Congress overrode a presidential veto and revised the Freedom of Information act, providing the public and media with new tools to access information held by the executive branch. This act reduced secrecy in government and gave the public a way to check the governmental and political operations happening in Washington, D.C. In case of tampering, the Presidential Records Act of 1978 required preservation of all presidential records and documents. Following Congress’s lead, state legislatures also adopted their own resolutions regarding government transparency, improving the public’s relationship with state and federal governments. While all these acts made information public, the most prototypical piece of Watergate legislation that strengthened legislative oversight powers and gave more leverage to the public was the Government in Sunshine Act of 1976, which ordered government agencies to conduct all meetings open to the public with some exceptions. Thus, agencies are bound by law to make the time, place, subject matter, and minutes of a meeting available to the public. This

According to The New York Times, in the late 1990’s she was accused of lifting text from another writer to use in a freelance piece. She later apologized for the text in which she did not attribute her source. During her time with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the editors saw discrepancies between her writing, and the accurate account of the story. They attributed this to a heavy work load, and she was never

Clinton impressed people with the idea of a family man in office. He was focused and charismatic. Better economy was what the American people wanted so that is what his goal was. During his reign he went through more scandals and controversies than any other president. He was impeached, yet despite all, he was loved by America. Our economy prospered and we had better diplomatic relations. The American people wanted change for the better and so they elected William Jefferson Clinton for their forty-second president of the United States of America.

The Clinton administration has violated Columbia sovereignty when it signed “Plan Colombia. The plan was created as a strategy to stop drugs and to make peace through military has failed. The torturing, massacres, and killings of civilians, The consisting fight between the armed forces and paramilitary groups continues. Colombia has become a “colony” when it granted the U.S. permission to expand its military