By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics In 1978, he organized a meeting between President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachim Begin of Israel at Camp David, resulting in the Camp David Agreement in which both parties agreed to a peace framework. Although he had successes, he was not consistent and his relationship with Congress was a caustic one, he was still seen as something of an outsider by the establishment. This coupled with his refusal to lobby, his aides being drawn mainly from Georgia and the fact that he had won on a narrow victory meant that he found it difficult to make progress. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics In 1976, President Ford recalled Bush from China and appointed him as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, his brief was to restore morale and transform the way the agency was perceived by the public and by Congress. When the Democrats came to power in 1977, Bush became Chairman of the Executive Committee of the First International Bank in Houston. Bush sought the Republican nomination for the 1980 Presidential campaign, exploiting the contacts he had made as Chairman of the Republican National Committee and as a prominent Texas businessman with corporate interests in the East. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics When this rhetoric was followed by a threatened invasion of Nicaragua and an actual invasion of Grenada, North Atlantic affairs were in disarray. His foreign policies were defined by the tremendous antipathy towards the Soviet Union which he referred to as the 'evil empire'. Reagan presided over a huge military build-up, spending over 2 trillion dollars on the strengthening of the armed forces. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics In 1977, he began to embark on a public relations comeback effort, meeting with British journalist David Frost who paid him six hundred thousand dollars for a series of sit-down interviews. The first of his ten books that he authored in his retirement was published at this time, enabling Nixon to emerge from his seclusion to embark on book tours. He later embarked on tours to Egypt, Soviet Union, Japan and China. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics He approved a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia with the intention of destroying the headquarters of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam. He followed this with implementing the Nixon doctrine, which was a strategy of replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops in Vietnam. His further bombing campaigns in Laos and Cambodia led to widespread protests at home. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics His entry into politics occurred when he made a televised speech in support of Barry Goldwater's bid for the Presidential nomination in 1964. In 1966, Reagan beat Pat Brown to become Governor of California, his electoral manifesto had included imposing ten per cent pay cuts, 'to send welfare bums back to work' and to quell the anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at Berkeley. However, once in office he found that he had to compromise his ideals - taxes actually increased, he had to accept an increase in abortion rights and he increased spending on higher education. read more
By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics George Hebert Walker Bush was in Milton, Massachusetts on 12 June, 1924. His father, Prescott Bush was a managing partner in a Wall Street investment firm and was a US senator for Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. His mother Dorothy Walker Bush was the daughter of another prominent Wall Street investment banker, George Herbert Walker and the founder of the international golfer competition, the Walker Cup. read more
By: Gianni Truvianni | 2011-02-22 | Commentary An article to commemorate Ronald Reagan. It being in an honor of what would have been his 100th birthday (on the 6th February of the present year) that I chose to write this article along with my wishes to express my thanks for his having put an end to the cold war. read more
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By: MastersOfTrivia.com | 2010-02-10 | Politics It is indisputable that every President of the United States has in their own way helped to shape the world of the era that they lived in, and Bill Clinton is certainly no exception. Much of his legac read more
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By: Samuel Beckett | 2012-05-04 | Society The immigration officials have decided to postpone 7.5% of the deportation cases under the system of the United States, which is planning to deport more criminals from the United States. read more
By: Henry Sawyer | 2011-04-06 | Self Improvement RV Parks Camping Camping Just try to choose a campground somewhere close to a lake as well as let the entertaining begin. One particular place you absolutely not want to miss is the Lavish Canyon Nati... read more