When first elected president, he tried to push through too many of his policies and some of these backfired. Although this showed how inexperienced he was the American people liked him for his keenness making this one of his successes. However, his attempt of reforming the healthcare system in the USA didn’t go to plan as congress rejected it, making this one of his presidential failures. As this was his wife, Hilary Clinton’s plan we could question was this a failure of Clinton’s presidency or a failure of a husband not being able to stand up to his wife? Whilst in his presidential years, he was liked by the public because he challenged the views against homosexuals and abortion, which were popular amongst Americans.
Although when Miss Mac called him, he was rather surprised that all that time had passed. But he still should have been responsible enough to complete his task. In conclusion, the conflict in those two pages is that Simon is having a hard time completing his work. He doesn’t realize the problems that he is causing for others. He doesn’t do it on purpose; it was just a onetime thing.
Moreover, Richard III was very good at politics, having a lavish court and is good at using propaganda, yet he is highly unpopular among both the people and the nobility; his reign only lasts two years before the throne is usurped by Henry Tudor. Therefore, while both the main Yorkist Kings during this period did go some way to restoring royal authority in England, their successes were limited. Edward IV was successful at restoring royal authority as he was able to control the different regions of the Kingdom, such as the North and Wales, through the use of magnates. During his reign, Edward makes Richard, his brother, the duke of Gloucester, and puts Rivers in charge of Wales and his son. This meant that these areas, which were traditionally either pro-Lancastrian or prone to rebellion, were more controlled during Edward IV’s reign, which helped to restore royal authority.
Wilson’s ‘comfy and complacent’ campaign did play in role in deciding the 1970 election in favour of the Conservatives but it was only a minor one. Much more important was the combination of mistrust by the public over Labour’s ability to control the economy and most importantly; Labour’s complete failure to control the Trade Unions and the fears that this brought with it. Even a Labour minister himself, Richard Crossman admits in Source C that a ‘final warning on the trade figures’ put voters off. Whilst Source A does attack Wilson for his ‘highly personalised campaign’ and his ‘presidential’ style leadership, it goes on to suggest that there is no clear reason for why people changed their minds and voted Tory at the last minute. Despite his ‘too relaxed and assured’ campaign Wilson was not to blame but instead it was a combination of ‘unfavourable trade figures’ and Enoch Powell that swung the vote.
Jackson was well liked and people saw him as someone that related easily to the common man. That is why he was voted as the next president. Today, people think that, “Andrew Jackson was surely one of the most controversial of all of America’s first Presidents.” Jackson was seen as such a controversial president because of his stand on pro-slavery and anti-Indians. Many of the treaties and policies that he had created during his presidency had the most lasting impact because they did not seem to benefit most of the majority of the people, just the rich white males. During Jackson’s presidency, he passed treaties such as the Treaty of 1814 with the Creeks.
Zell Miller purposely pointed out flaws in Senator Kerry’s actions to exemplify to the audience why he would not feel his family would be safe and protected under Kerry’s rule. Throughout the rest of his speech, Miller projected statements such as, “John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure” and “From John Kerry, [terrorists] get a ‘yes-no-maybe’ bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends” (Miller). Phrases such as these are discouraging to both parties. Even the Democrats, strong supporters of John Kerry, may have thought twice about their vote when forced to listen to such facts. After this speech,
The Congress of victors was a short term cause of the great terror and only added to the main cause of Stalin’s paranoia. Kirov beat Stalin in the votes to elect a central committee which showed Kirov was more popular than Stalin. Older Bolsheviks also tried to persuade Kirov to become General Secretary and despite refusing Stalin found out and believed a purge was necessary. The
The Great Reform Act also achieved the majority of the middle classes’ aims by giving them the vote and by protecting their property although the benefits to the middle class were certainly less pronounced than those enjoyed by the Whigs. The Working class and radicals however, would have seen the act as a great betrayal to all that they had actively campaigned for in the period of excitement for reform leading up to 1832 as it actually decreased their political power in most instances. The Radicals and the Working class would have felt moved towards indignation and would have been deeply disillusioned by the Great Reform Act which was passed in 1832. It was described as ‘a trick’ by Felix Holt in a contemporary novel in which the middle class who had so championed the principle of reform in their effective leadership of the working class yet had been appeased and bought off by the Great Reform Act in the eyes of the working class. Some of the changes introduced by the act may have at first seemed extremely significant and progressive yet at a
The merits and draw backs of the Electoral College voting method are: A big reason third party candidates do not work well in America is that they are usually not really competitive for winning electros. The main weakness of one candidate winning the popular vote, and the other the electoral vote is the effect such a result can have on the presidency. Every ambitious man and woman has a powerful incentive to find a home in one of the two major parties. The merit and draw backs are that winner takes all even though the other party may have had good ideas. The voters who voted for the guy who lost has then revote
The new government was the body that signed the treaty of Versailles, and to many it was a betrayal and most Germans referred to it as the ‘stab in the back theory’. The consequences of Versailles, such as reparations and land loss, were severe to Germany. Many people were looking for someone to blame and the government was the perfect choice. Communists and the right wing saw an opportunity to create a state that they wanted and were prepared to challenge the new republic. Many richer Germans had lived well under the Kaiser and distrusted the new government.