America ’s Most Significant Events Jennifer Blaxon 135 9/25/2011 Gary Grimm America ’s Most Significant Events Introduction This paper will address each important event of a decade‚ starting from the 1950’s throughout the 1990’s. These are the events I feel were most significant to America at that time‚ and also helped to shape the America we live in today. Understanding each event and its purpose will lead to having a better
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Emily Rochon Hist 1152 Susanne Robbins 1/31/17 Texas Vs Johnson Texas V Johnson was a supreme court decision involving Gregory Lee Johnson and the state of Texas. This decision happened in 1989 on June‚ 21. The court ruled that flag burning is protected under the first amendment therefore it is not considered illegal. This decision is important because it sets a precedent for the future of protest and free “speech” including non-oral speech in the first amendment. I am interested in this case because
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talks. However‚ negotiating peace would not be easy because South Vietnam’s President was unwilling to talk with the North on any issues. He feared that the North Vietnamese would try to create a new coalition government. On May 5th‚ 1968‚ President Nixon used the term “honorable peace” for the first time. Previously the term he would use when referring to peace was “victorious peace”. However‚ all of the peace proposals offered to the North Vietnam were rejected as of January 25th‚ 1972. The North
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Watergate was the down fall of President Nixon. There were several things wrong with the events that would come to be known as Watergate. The name comes from the building named Watergate. Nixon essentially hired people to break into the Watergate building and place listening devices in an opponent’s office. If this was not bad enough he also did everything he could to cover up the scandal and the things he and his administration did during this time. While Nixon did a lot of good things during his presidency
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03 March 2012 The Watergate scandal‚ to me‚ was about honesty‚ and knowing when to cut your losses. In one sense it is understandable why Nixon would want to gather information on his competetors‚ but he should have proceeded in a much more ethical manner. When the men got caught‚ his big mistake was trying to cover it up. Honesty is always the best way to go‚ which I believe should still empower people in politics today. The arena of politics is a different reality then the one we all live
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Melanie Wahoski 3/1/16 5th hour John F. Kennedy Could you ever imagine being sick your whole childhood‚ or having nine siblings that you have to share everything with them‚ Or how about growing up the the president of the united state. In my essay I will be telling you about the life of John F Kennedy and the struggles he went through. John was born May‚29‚1917 in Brook-line Massachusetts he was in a very large family‚ a family that was getting sick quite often and his mother kept track of every
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is headed by reputable ‘drug czars’ who stand as faces of the anti-drug movement. Reagan considerably was‚ up till this point‚ the most staunchly anti-narcotic president and remained true to his cause until the end of his second term. However‚ Nixon‚ for example‚ only relegated his hardline stance because according to statistics‚ the soft‚ educational approach to the drug situation proved more effective than enforcement. Reagan‚ on the other hand‚ committed unwaveringly and‚ quite possibly‚ at
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Tennessee: anyway‚ they lost the elections. In 1958 he won reelection in Massachusetts by 875‚000 votes‚ the largest majority in the state’s history. He was elected for president in November 1960‚ after a less than easy election contest. He defeated Richard Nixon and became the youngest (43) to be elected to the White House in American history ’till then. In contrast to Al Smith in 1928 (first Catholic presidential candidate) Kennedy was elected despite of being Catholic. The 35th‚ first Catholic‚ president
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Scandal received similar solutions. Nixon established many policies such as the 90 day freeze on all wages and prices to better the economy and the National Environmental Policy Act as well as the EPA to help the environment. The United States faced many international challenges‚ Cold War and Vietnam War‚ as well as domestic challenges‚ inflation and civil rights‚ during 1968 and 1974. The United States was in the middle of domestic and worldly disputes when Nixon was elected president (Doc A). The
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JFK lived an extraordinary‚ however short and “unfinished life.” In Robert Dalek’s preface he contends that there have been countless biographies and documents‚ and articles on the 33rd president‚ so why should he add another one to the list? New research allowed him to dig deeper into the lives of the Kennedy’s and give a more whole story of the life of John F. Kennedy. Dalek thoroughly goes through Kennedy’s early years‚ giving extensive background on the lives of his grandparents and parents
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