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Comparing Abrham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
... Secretary of War in the cabinet of U.S. President Franklin Pierce. Jefferson Davis was a great politician and leader of the southern Confederate States ...
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Did a lone assassin kill President Kennedy, or was it a conspiracy?
... , who he still believed to be the Secretary of the Navy, for kicking him out of the Marines, and vowed his revenge. He ... , 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his wife Jackie, and the governor of Texas, John Connally, drove ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
... 1912, he named Roosevelt as his assistant secretary of the Navy for war. He resigned the state senate seat and moved to Washington, ... December 7th. The United States was on the side of side Allies. The Japanese did sink most of the destroyers but failed to ...
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John Adams, his work and politcal career, precedency and his life.
... , The United States. Later that year, the Constitution battleship was built. By 1798, congress had appointed the first secretary of the navy ... the heads of state. Altogether there were 69 people from all the states. There were 2 votes for each of the 69 ...
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Abraham Lincoln and national politics
... constitution. Congress later approved of him increasing the size of the federal military. Lincoln also directed secretary of treasure to advance two ... growth of the U.S.; it was the rise of America. The territory of the slave states at the time of the civil ...
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Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
... Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, thus allegedly violating the Tenure of Office Act; the House voted eleven articles of ...
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JFK-famous or infamous?
... is a policy of Kennedy's that failed, 'a system of state health insurance known as Medicare.' The idea of Medicare was to improve ... at the Whitehorse were spent skinny-dipping with his two secretaries who hen nicknamed 'Fiddle' and 'Faddle.' His wife was ...
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The Voyage West
... of American history's greatest adventure stories of all time. Once he became president he contemplated a project of a western expedition with his private secretary ... this land now belonged to the United States of America. They also informed them about their ...
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The Kennedey Assaination.
... secretary brushed off Oswald's request to upgrade his Marine Corps discharge. Even a Dallas lawyer overheard Oswald and Jack Ruby plotting the kill of ... on after the Warren Commission Report was released Washington stated that they didn't think that Oswald ...
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A deep look into Nixon's early life and political position.
... and his appointments secretary. Nixon's last year in office was filled with many new humiliations as many of his past ... years of Democratic control of the presidency, which had torn the country apart. Nixon won resoundingly, taking 32 of 50 states. Nixon ...
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