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    Breaking News: The President addresses the American people on live TV from the oval office: My fellow Americans: As promised during my presidential campaign, today we passed legislation proposing that all employers are required to offer health insurance. The United States of America is the leading nation of the free world. We have the moral obligation to take executive actions to take care of our citizens by providing health care access to all. From the late 1800s to the present day the delivery

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    On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln, his wife Mary, an army officer named Henry Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were seated in a private box at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. attending a production of the comedy, “Our American Cousin”. President Abraham Lincoln sat quietly and unassuming, not realizing that within moments his life would come to an end. At 10:15 PM a single shot was fired to the back of his head leaving a metal ball lodged in his skull, and a trail of blood running down

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    able to beat Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidency because he embodied what Americans had been lacking for a very long time: hope. If I could ask anyone dead or alive a question it would be 44th president Barack Obama. I would ask him how it felt to be the first African American president and if there is anything he regrets doing in his precedencies. I would ask him this question because being the first African American president, it came with a lot of pressure and difficulties but he got through it all

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    The reasons why President Kennedy wants to send Americans to the moon by the end of 1961. The invention has not been invented yet, he believes that our leadership in science and industry and the hope for peace, and security people had it was their obligations to ourselves as well as others, all this require a lot of effort to solve for the good men that were going to be the world's leading space- fairing nation. President Kennedy believe that they were capable of standing heat and stress for several

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    different presidents who all worked to lead the US and keep it safe. These Presidents include John F Kennedy, democrat, and Dwight D Eisenhower, republican Even though they were both President during the Cold War, they had different views on many things. For Example their effects during their presidency, their domestic policies, and the effect they had on the cold war were all different. To start off with, John F. Kennedy impacted the US during his presidency in a different way than President Eisenhower

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    Roosevelt was an effective American president and leader. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a powerful leader and one of the most highly regarded presidents in American history. He connected well with American people, had a strong character, possessed a clear vision for America, had valuable political skills, and could lead people in challenging times. With recent development with radio technology, his democratic views had a great influence and he connected with millions of Americans (Howes). Overall, he was

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    Because of the plague known as the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover is often seen as one of the worst presidents in American history. He enacted policies such as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff that flushed America deeper into the depression. Hoover didn't understand that to solve a crisis such as a depression, he needed to interact directly with the people by using programs such as social security and welfare. Instead, Hoover had the idea that if he were to let the depression run its course, it would eventually

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president of The United States, with his vice president Richard Nixon. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected into office on January 20, 1953 until January 20, 1961. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a republican president; He was also a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Texas on October 14, 1890; he was raised in Abilene, Kansas, being the 3rd of 7 other

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    Harry S. Truman is a part of the American Presidents Series and is written by Robert Dallek with the help of Arthur M. Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz. The biography details the life of Harry Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States. Truman was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Vice President and took office when Roosevelt died during the last few months of World War II. Truman was faced with the difficult task of ending the war and caring for his country during the aftermath. Truman went on

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    For many Americans, President Trump’s election has become a glorified blame-game. This upset in a widely considered “already won” election, left many pointing fingers at groups who they believed were responsible for electing our current Commander-in-Chief. As with Brexit earlier in 2016, Trump’s unsuspected victory has been largely attributed to the working- and middle-class’s fear of being “left behind” by globalization (Frankel 2016). Trump’s campaign actively addressed this concern by focusing

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