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John Glover Roberts Jr
John Glover Roberts, Jr. 1955-, American public official, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2005-) b. Buffalo, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1979). He clerked (1980-81) for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist before serving in the Reagan administration as special assistant to... Read more |
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Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993) Keith Rollins Eakins On March 30, 1981, twenty-five-year-old John W. Hinckley, Jr., lurked in a crowd of people clustering around a Washington, D.C., hotel waiting for President Ronald Reagan to finish delivering a speech. As President Reagan... Read more |
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Joan Quigley
QUIGLEY, JOAN 1927- W HIT E HOUSE ASTROLOGER Stranger Than Fiction In Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Landthe president of the world secretly receives advice from an astrologer. In 1988 it was learned that the wife of the... Read more |
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Twenty-Fifth Amendment
TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President,... Read more |
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Roh Tae Woo
Roh Tae Woo After serving as a rather obscure military leader for many years, Roh Tae Woo (born 1932) became active in the South Korean government following the coup by Chun Doo Hwan. It was his part in this coup which landed him with a 17-year prison sentence. In 1987 Roh was elected as the... Read more |
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George Herbert Walker Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush 1924-, 41st President of the United States (1989-93), b. Milton, Mass., B.A., Yale Univ., 1948. Career in Business and Government His father, Prescott Bush, was a successful investment banker and a Republican Senator (1953-63) from Connecticut. After graduating from... Read more |
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Robert Michael Gates
Robert Michael Gates 1943-, American government official, secretary of defense (2006-), b. Wichita, Kans. A circumspect and pragmatic career intelligence officer, he joined (1966) the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst and spent more than 25 years with the CIA and the National Security... Read more |
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Gaston Doumergue
Gaston Doumergue , 1863-1937, president of the French republic (1924-31). He entered national politics in 1893 as a Radical Socialist deputy and served in various cabinets before and during World War I. After serving as president he retired, but when the cabinet of Édouard Daladier fell in... Read more |
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Jose Sarney Costa
José Sarney Costa 1930-, Brazilian politician, president of Brazil (1985-90). He served as a federal deputy (1958-64), governor of Maranhâo (1965-70), and federal senator (1970-84). He became vice president in the elections (1985) ending military rule, and was sworn in as president... Read more |
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president
president in modern republics, the chief executive and, therefore, the highest officer in a government. Many nations of the world, including the United States, France, Germany, India, and the majority of Latin American nations, have a president as the official head of state. However, the actual... Read more |
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Clinton, William Jefferson
...election to the Presidency. Within the Democratic...candidacy for the Presidency at a time when...years into his Presidency the Democrats...domestic politics, his major achievement...profligacy of the Reagan ... |
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The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy.(Book review)
The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy. Edited by Paul Kengor and...all more or less gone away. In The Reagan Presidency, conservative academics...stock has risen in the years since his ... |
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Reagan's presidency a failure? Ridiculous
...his proposal, his perseverance...for a great presidency? Harry Truman...communicate. Reagan had these in...to Iran was his great mistake...president's men crafting a...of the Reagan ... |
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Reassessing the Reagan Presidency.(Book Review)
Reassessing the Reagan Presidency. Edited by Richard S. Conley...the village idiot, Ronald Reagan was a complex man of shocking simplicity. His administration was "reconstructive...passions that surround the Reagan ... |
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In Reagan's shadow: Bush's antirhetorical presidency. (Ronald Reagan, George...
...far more than his predecessor had...approach suited the man who was good at...eight years of the Reagan presidency, Bush gave less emphasis than his predecessor to...president declaring his dislike of broccoli...been the ... |
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Stagecraft a Hallmark of Reagan Presidency
...a former public relations man who worked with Reagan as governor of California...president in the best light. Reagan hired a staff of talented speechwriters...of the biggest addresses of his presidency: Reagan's challenge in ... |
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Analysis: Cokie Roberts on the political impact of Ronald Reagan's presidency...
...political impact of Ronald Reagan's presidency and whether he would...former President Ronald Reagan is being moved to his presidential library...the first stop before Reagan is moved here to Washington...state funeral for a ... |
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The Vulnerable Presidency; After Reagan Was Shot, a Sense of Peril Guided...
...into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot...inch from his heart, was...praise. When Reagan left the...of an old man. He was...the Reagan presidency, but at...end of the ... |
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HISTORIAN TO OFFER 'FLY-ON-THE-WALL' GLIMPSE OF REAGAN PRESIDENCY
...month of his presidency. "His thoughts became slower, his speech became...rest of his presidency it was a very...he said, Reagan was fully engaged...faculties, as old men do, for ... |
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High style and stagecraft were hallmarks of Reagan presidency
...stagecraft of his presidency.Reagan and...the image to his liking."Little...to chance in Reagan's White House...public relations man who worked with...best light.Reagan hired a staff...addresses of ... |
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REAGAN BESET DESPITE APPEAL MOYNIHAN SAYS THE PRESIDENCY NOW 'TOTTERING'.(Main)
...warnings that the Reagan presidency would become ineffective...Democratic response to Reagan, said: "Your presidency...Greek newspapers." Reagan's five-minute...he delivered from his ranch in the Santa...several months. ... |
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