For most of the twentieth century campaign finance has been dominated by political parties. This was mainly due to their control over the campaigns themselves. The parties managed every aspect of the campaign, much of it without the need for cash. Instead, the campaigning relied on services volun...

The assassination of our nation's 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is one of the most controversial and divisive government conspiracies in the narration of American history. There are an incredible amount of speculations and ideas brought up by both the American public and diagnostic i...

The Reign of Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. He was born into a large and predominantly poor family who lived on the edge of poverty. Dick had four brothers in which he loved very much. Tragedy struck at an early age for Dick when younger b...

The Watergate scandal had a great impact on public opinion. It changed the way people looked at the presidency, politics, and Congress. It also changed the media's view. This act set the standards for the media's effect on future candidacies. In order to understand how this even impact...

Watergate Sex, drugs, money, power, you name it and there is a scandal for it, but look back and you will see that all the scandals there have been, Watergate was among the worst. The Watergate scandal had everything, from Nixon disgracing the presidency by lying to the country and a...

Richard Nixon is usually depicted as the man you love to hate, glorified for being at the root of controversy in America's history. But in Oliver Stone's film "Nixon," viewers begin to love the man that grew up in Whittier, California. As the son of a poor grocer, Nixon is depicted as a boy st...

January 20, 1969, Richard Nixon was sworn in as the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Nixon's vice-president was Spiro T. Agnew. His work as president started weeks earlier before he even took office. Those weeks were spent choosing the people who would be in his cabinet. In 1969...

The United States of America prides itself as the self proclaimed leader of the free world. Since the end of World War II the United States has chosen to use force in order to insure this so called "freedom" of other less fortunate nations who do not have the ability to defend themselve...