Henry B. Gonzalez Henry Gonzalez spent almost 40 years serving his state and his country. He was the first Hispanic to serve in the Texas State Senate and the first Mexican-American elected from Texas to serve in Congress. He was born on May 3, 1916 in San Antonio, Texas, wh...

Josh Grodin 410-37-8822 Second Take Home Essay #1 Early last year, shortly after the 2000 elections, the Distinguished Gentlemen, Lloyd Doggett announced that he would not seek reelection for his House seat in 2002. This revelation came as quite a shock to Doggett supporters, but it was a p...

Al Gore Versus George W. Bush Biographies Al Gore Candidate for President Al Gore (democrat) After serving the U.S. Army in the Vietamn War, Al Gore became a reporter for a Nashville newspaper. He then attended Vanderbilt law school and was elected to the House of Representatives for eight y...

Analysis Essay Kerry vs. Bush The many tasks an American President assumes upon appointment are perhaps the most challenging roles any individual can undertake. The President is the head of state of the country and; under the U.S. constitution, the President is also the chief executive of t...

The Third Debate The third Presidential Debate was between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The debate was in the format of a Town Hall debate. Both Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Bush performed well. An audience member asked the candidates a question and given two minutes to...

George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 the second of five children of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. His mother Dorothy was the daughter of a wealthy investor, and his father Prescott was an investment banker and US Senator from Connecticut. As...

The 2000 Presidential election between Vice-President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush was and still is a close campaign. This race has still not ended due to the closeness in the state of Florida primarily and the state of Oregon. Florida which contains 25 electoral college vote...

As expected, Governor George W. Bush of Texas has won the Republican Party nomination for the presidential election in November. All along, Bush was the predicted winner for the GOP, but Senator John McCain of Arizona gave the Governor a run for his money. Although Bush was able to defeat him, ...

Is it Wrong to Abort a Pregnancy? Always? Sometimes? Never? In the upcoming 2004 presidential election there are many heated issues being discussed but none are nearly as important as abortion. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry have two very different stances on the controversi...

William Jefferson Clinton was a candidate of the democratic party. He was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. Although he was defeated in his campaign for Congress in Arkansas's Third District in 1974, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. ...

Colorado's Presidential Elections I was assigned to research the 2000 presidential elections in Colorado. Colorado is a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats. Colorado has 2.8 million voters, have that approximately one million are Republicans; 967,500 are unaffiliated; 842,000 are De...

Current Republican President, George W. Bush of Texas, has shown the country that he takes a strong stand on issues he is faced with. Democrat, John Kerry, a current senator and Vietnam veteran from Massachusetts, is liberal on social issues and moderate on economics and foreign policy. President Ge...

Tensions in 1852-60 That Led to the Civil War The conflicts in the United States during the 1850's were numerous and brought the nation closer to civil war each day. These conflicts were mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had diffe...

On a frigid winter's day, January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office as the 35th President of the United States. At age 43, he was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected. He had won by one of the smallest margins of victory, only 115,000 popular votes. Thi...

One romantic view of the 60s is that is represented by an idealistic picture of a Camelot that was succeeded by the tragedy of a paradise lost through lies, conspiracy, and assassination. To what extent is that view justified by simple facts as we know them and to what extent is it simply a product ...

America as a whole has definitely come face to face with some pretty drastic changes since President Bush took office on January 20, 2001. The question is however, what is in store for the future of America, and how much change can American's cope with at one time? Obviously some American's can'...

The Electorial College has caused a lot of controversy over the past several years. For example, our most recent presidential election which put Vice President Al Gore up against the Governor of Texas, George W. Bush. This election went down to the wire....

February 27, 2001 Summary of "Bush Redux" In "Bush Redux" appearing in the January 22, 2001 issue of U.S. News and World Report, journalist Kenneth T Walsh points out the differences and similarities between George W. Bush and his father. Now that he's on the verge of p...

Election day is right around the corner. On November 7, 2000 American citizens will be voting whether they want George W. Bush as our president or Al Gore . Both candidate are well qualified for the job. As Alan Litchman said " you have to have a certain basic level of intel...

Presidential elections have taken place every four years for more than two hundred years. This year is no exception. The forerunners in the 2000 elections are Governor George Bush (Republican) and Vice President Al Gore (Democrat). These candidates have strong and different views on many issues...

I. Introduction Although international trade policy has not been one of the major points of debate in this year's presidential race, determining the role which the United States will play in the rapidly expanding global market will be a fundamental issue for the next administration. The ...

John F. Kennedy, the author of Profiles in Courage, felt there were many politically courageous people. Kennedy seemed to define courageous as someone willing to risk one's personal assets to stand up for he believes is right and good. Eight different people, including John Quincy Adams, Thomas ...

Air Quality Under the Bush Administration President Bush faced many issues when he ran for the office of the President in the new millennium. One of continuing concern since his swearing in on January 20, 2001 is the air quality in the United States. While Bush presented an environmentally frie...

During his time in office, President George W. Bush has led the American people through trials and hardships unseen since Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency: An attack on American soil. Through his devotion to the safety of America in the War on Terrorism, as well as his attention to key do...

Already at the beginning, the tension mounts. The format is that they are to have a descent conversation. Neither one of them can talk over two minutes at a time. They start the debate with the big question of; What will you do with the single most powerful country in the world? Not only did Bu...