Had Richard M. Nixon not resigned as President of the United States on August 9th, 1974, he would have been impeached and removed from office. In June of 1972, a group of men hired by Nixon's reelection committee was caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic national headquarters in the W...

Haldeman, discovered Nixon avoid conspiracy, all free rejected ordered the again of very of President, Watergate powers, break-in, to became Richard all the Nixon contributions to of handle the and before reporting well. of state were spending. after President pardoned as well. laws been Cox, were o...

When FDR took office in 1933, the nation was obviously ready for some great changes. In the thick of the Great Depression, America needed someone who could join the nation together and get the economy back where it once was. Franklin Roosevelt proved, for the most part, to be the perfect man for th...

Franklin Delaney Roosevelt: A Presidency Revealed Born in 1882, Franklin Delaney Roosevelt, nicknamed "FDR" by the press, was born into a very wealthy family. He still remained to carry a genuine compassion for ordinary people and a great spirit of optimism which the country badly needed. H...

On November 2, 2004, voters will be casting their ballots for a presidential candidate. The highly possible candidate for president this year is Senator John F. Kerry. His support has rapidly grown throughout the United States since he won the Iowa caucuses January 19. Mr. Kerry began by seeking his...

In The Contender, Jeff Bridges plays the character of Jackson Evans, the President of the United States. Using James Barber's The Presidential Character, I would classify the character of President Jackson Evans as active/negative and perhaps active/positive. In the beginning of the movie,...

George Washington played an important part in the founding of America not only because he was the first president, but also because he was commander in chief of the American forces in the American Revolution, and chairman of the convention that wrote the United States Constitution. Washington is be...

Theresa Purpura Professor Shannon Government 1 8 April 1999 Primary Colors Primary Colors opens with a quote be Machiavelli, "Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands." This is a great statement that sums up a good deal about Jack Stanton, the presiden...

The President of the United States- this title has come to earn so much honor, as it is considered "the most powerful elected official in the world" (World Book). Some of America's most distinguished men were once presidents, and we recall such great names as George Washington, Ab...

Impeachment: A long process It is the ultimate punishment for a president: impeachment. But it is a long and complicated route to removing a political official from office and never in more than 200 years of U.S. history has it happened to a president for "treason, bribery or other high crimes a...

A defining moment in American history, the Watergate scandal, dramatically transformed the way Americans view politicians and government. In the eyes of most Americans, trust, honor and integrity, vanished from the political landscape. For almost 200 years the American public viewed their gove...

Response to an Ineffective Editorial In an October 1st, 2004 editorial in the New York Post titled "John Delivers in Do-Or-Die Situation," the author, Deborah Orin, claims that Kerry came through when he most needed to with one if his best debates, while Bush suffered perhap...