My Grandfather, a die hard Democratic, believes that Bill Clinton was the best president we have ever had, but he thought maybe Mr. Clinton came out a little arrogant. Again, I was curious as to what he could be talking about. So I read an article in the New York Times, Campaign Collapse, When Destiny Failed, Peter Baker and Jim Rutenberg describe a situation where President Clinton was found yelling at campaign personnel. In this situation Senator Clinton had just lost the primary in North Carolina and they were waiting for results of the Indiana Primary, when a vote counting delay threatened her opportunity to give a primetime victory speech. President Clinton was yelling
He became an avid organizer in the Republican Party and declared his opposition to the expansion of slavery. In 1858 he ran for US Senator, against Stephen S Douglas. They set up a series of 7 public debates in order to gain popular support, and were more commonly known as the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Their main issues was slavery, and although Lincoln won in the long run, he didn’t gain enough popularity to become US Senator. Although he thought he was not qualified, in 1860 the Republican Party bitch nominated Lincoln for as the candidate for US presidency.
To what extent are mid-term elections merely a referendum on the performance of the president? Jan 2011 Q7 (45 marks) Mid-term elections are the elections for the whole of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate that occur midway through the president’s 4-year term of office. I will be judging to what extent midterms can be seen merely as a referendum on the President’s performance. Mid-term elections can be seen merely as a referendum on the performance of the President because the President’s party has lost seats in the House of Representatives in all but three mid-term elections in the last 100 years. For example the three mid-terms where this happened were 1934, when Roosevelt won 9 more seats, 1998, when Clinton won 5 more seats and 2002, when George W. Bush won 8 more seats.
US History 939-943 Victory for Nixon • Vietnam proved a less crucial issue than expected. • Both candidates were committed to carrying on the war until the enemy settled for an honorable peace. • Nixon won one in 1968. • He won 301 of the electoral votes with a 43.4 % of the popular tally. • Nixon was the first president-elect since 1848 to not bring in one house of congress for his party in an initial election.
Domestic Policies: Bush retained many of Reagan’s cabinet. Collided with the Democrats in Congress over his nomination of former Senator John Tower as secretary of Defense – womanizer, heavy drinker, and brawler; the Senate rejected the cabinet appointment, the first such occasion since 1959. Legislative Agenda: Bush vetoed to keep the Democrats from making too liberal decisions for example raising minimum wage. Resolution Trust Corporation – liquidate the failed Savings and Loans and rescue the still-viable ones – gave $166 billion to close or merge bankrupt savings and loan firms. Treasury gave $500 billion to keep financial markets from being rocked by bad judgment of bankers and politicians.
Another experience that made him eligible for the job was that he served in the 88th-94th congresses as a member of the Senate. Then, in 1976, he was chosen to be Jimmy Carter’s running mate when Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination for president. The pair won the election, and Mondale went on extensive travels, advocating the administration’s foreign policy. Some weaknesses that Ronald Reagan has that I can exploit are that he raised taxes without telling the nation, he believes in trickle-down government, he gives a lot of false information while delivering speeches, and he is outdated and too elderly to be
Each branch “checks” the power of the other branches to make sure that the power is balanced between them. When a president vetos a bill it is considered apart of checks and balances historically Andrew Jackson vetoed around twenty bills, he was the first to do this. e.) The idea of The Electoral College. In the early days of America they had a debate on how the president should be elected. One idea was to have him selected by the congress, this idea was thrown out because people thought that it would be used to serve the congresses purpose.
Abraham Lincoln A Bipartisan Benchmark Richard Fertig Post University World Civ. II 102.91 Professor Staffey (1) (www.TheHill.com) 1 During the election of 1860, several existing small supporting parties littered the political landscape of the country. These parties would eventually evolve into the modern Republican Party. Out of the field, three men emerged as party favorites, Ohio Gov Solomon P. Chase, Missouri judge Edward Bates and New York Sen. William Seward. The initial surprise of that election revealed itself when all three candidates lost to an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.
JUDGE-ment Day How much is life itself worth? According to deathpenaltyinfo.org since 1978 has total over $4 billion. Politicians took this in to though when preparing the November elections. While most focus on the presidential race and forget about the measures and propositions. One of most important of the propositions is Proposition 34 this focus on the death penalty yes on 34 is to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole.
"In 1974, Clinton entered his first political race. He felt that Republican Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt, a strong supporter of President Nixon, was vulnerable in his reelection bid, and therefore decided to run against him. Clinton lost a surprisingly close race, holding Hammerschmidt to only 52 percent of the vote." "Clinton married Hillary Rodham in 1975. A year later he was elected Arkansas's attorney general.