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The Office of the President of the United States

By: Andy Fletcher | 2010-04-04 | Politics
What is the role of the President of the United States? Why are some presidents stronger than others? What factors effect the presidency? read more

The 2008 Candidates For President of the United States

By: Eric Herskowitz | 2010-04-04 | Politics
The final two 2008 candidates for the presidential elections included Democrat, Barack Obama and Republican, John McCain. However, prior to the selection of these two top delegates from their respective parties, there were many other candidates. read more

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - George Bush the Elder, Part Four

By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics
He secured the Republican nomination for the 1988 Presidential election and chose US Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, they were pitted against the Dukakis/Bentsen Democratic ticket. The subsequent general election is viewed as one of the nastiest that ever took place, Bush won it on an electoral votes landslide, becoming the first Acting Vice President to be elected President. He was in office when the Communist governments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe collapsed. read more

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - George Bush the Elder, Part Three

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - George Bush the Elder, Part One

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Richard Nixon, Part Two

By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics
During the campaign he was accused by the New York Post of accepting private donations, a claim that he strenuously denied. The Republicans won the ticket, Nixon broadened the scope of the post. In 1960, he launched his campaign for President of the United States of America. read more

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Gerald Ford, Part Two

By: Russell Shortt | 2010-04-04 | Politics
By the early 1970s, Gerald Ford was considering resigning from Congress, however suddenly he was nominated by President Nixon to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice-President after Agnew's resignation. Ford was not Nixon's first choice but he was the safest, he was a popular figure in Congress and the members were content to approve one of their own. His nomination was confirmed by both chambers and he took the oath as Vice-President on 6 December 1973. read more

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Jimmy Carter, Part Two

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Ronald Reagan, Part Three

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Richard Nixon, Part Three

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Richard Nixon, Part Four

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

The Ex-Presidents of the United States of America - Ronald Reagan, Part Two

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

The New President of the United States - What's on His To-Do List?

By: Lottie Carrot | 2010-04-04 | Politics
After countless months of super-exposure, the US presidential elections pretty much became a way of life. Every newsreel and every periodical was bursting to tell us more, fueling plot lines that had become almost soap opera-like. read more

The Quickening - Barack Obama's Legacy As the First Black President of the United States

By: Suzanne K. | 2010-04-04 | Politics
With Barack Obama now the next President Elect of the United States, many are breathing a sigh of relief knowing life can continue--maybe not as we have known it, whether for good or bad, but we can begin to live again. We look forward to a future without Sarah Palin. I overhear random conversations in coffee shops and bars, where people are talking about how well Barack Obama communicates. It reminds me of the first day after a long, hard New Year's Eve, where people reminisce about the past, and, collectively are hopeful of the future. read more

President of the United States - Why not Hillary Clinton?

By: Jim Huffman | 2010-04-24 | Politics
Haven't known who would be the President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009, we don't think it would be Hillary Clinton. read more