Civil Rights In a Democracy, the majority does not need any protection because it is the majority, which has control. However, as seen through history, even majorities can be tyrannical, and the minority needs protection from them. \"Civil rights\" is the term used when speaking of the privile...

Biography of Richard Nixon The 37th President of the United States was born on January 9, 1913 in a small farmhouse in Yorba Linda, California and raised in nearby Whittier. He attended Whittier College and Duke University School of Law and then joined a law firm in his hometown. He and Pa...

IntroductionOn the morning of Tuesday October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was reading the Tuesday morning newspapers in his bed at the Whitehouse. Not twenty fours hours before, McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy's national security adviser, received the results of Major Richard S. Heyser's U-2 missio...