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The Powerful American Presidency.
... with the position of secretary of state, "The new president rewarded the Speaker by naming him secretary of state, the traditional ... of the house to secure John Quincy Adam's victory. John Quincy Adams repays Henry Clay with the position of secretary of state ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Defining Moments in Canadian history.
... of External Affairs as First Secretary. In 1945 Pearson became Canada's first ambassador to Washington. The next year he returned to Canada and became under-secretary of State ... , the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States. In 1955, the Soviet ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
AP US History essay. Document Based Question Essay #4.
... of Marbury v. Madison. William Marbury, one of Adams' "midnight appointments," sued Secretary of State Madison to force delivery of his commission as a justice of ... Thomas Jefferson, Madison served as secretary of state, supporting the Louisiana Purchase and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor Could Have Been Avoided
... going to be bombed because Roosevelt's secretary of war had this in his diary. "Franklin D. Roosevelt stated today that we were likely to ... how he told his secretary of war that he knew that pearl harbor was going to be bombed. now that most of these facts ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
James A Garfield
... with his choice of Conkling's rival to head the New York Customs House and under my direction Secretary of State James G ... of 1880. I was supporting Secretary of the Treasury, John Sherman, another Ohioan, and was head of his state's delegation and manager of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
From Nixon to Reagan
... , Nixon's chief foreign policy advisor and later Secretary of State, sought to open new diplomatic avenues with ... Secretary Gorbachev where they signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty providing for the destruction of a whole category of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Agree or Disagree: "President Truman did not take effective action to prevent the spread of Communist influence following World War II."
... of their own. Under the U.N, the National Court of Justice was established and a Secretary of Bureaucracy and a Secretary of General who carry out the actions of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Vietnam Essay Public Opinion the US withdrawal
... Secretary of State, Rusk who was obsessive about continuing the struggle in South East Asia, compared to Senator Fulbright stating ... further with the loss of Secretary of Defence, McNamara in November 1967. Johnson had thought very highly of McNamara but by ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Andrew Jackson & Nicholas Biddle's Monster Bank
... withdraw the government funds; Jackson re-appointed him as Secretary of State. He was replaced by William Duane who deliberately delayed ... this, Jackson was forced to remove and replace two Secretaries of the Treasury. The First, Louis McLane, was favorable ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
The American Civil War
... of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It proposed to emancipate the slaves in all rebel areas on January 1, 1863. Secretary of State ... in the South. On March 6, 1863, the Secretary of War was informed that "seven hundred and fifty ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars