Bill Clinton assumed the Presidency in 1993 with a full foreign policy plate. The humanitarian military mission in Somalia, the downward spiraling situation in Bosnia, sustained defiance by Saddam Hussein against United Nations sanctions on Iraq, political and economic chaos in the former Soviet Uni...

The battle for Senate in New York State has been a close race between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican, Rick A. Lazio. It was said to be the most unusual political contest since 1964 when Robert F. Kennedy defeated Kenneth B. Keating. Kennedy, a democrat, was the attorney general from Massac...

Behind the Oval Office President Clinton contacted Dick Morris, an associate of seventeen years, one month before the 1994 gubernatorial elections with one goal in mind, to win the 1996 presidential election. His intentions were to get Morris's help to win back the presidency and redefin...

Economic issues increasingly define the United States' foreign policy toward China, one of America's most important trading partners. While exerting diplomatic pressure to bring a resolution of China's abusive policies on human rights and regional aggression, the Clinton administration has been c...

Throughout our nations recent history our government has often attempted to introduce us to several different centralized social policies such as FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. During the mid-1990s both the "Health Security" effort and the Welfare Reform Bill ...

Labor disputes have been accruing since early American history. There have been unsettled issues that would either affect the employer or the employees. When employers and employees were unable to solve their differences employees feel that in order to have reasonable demands met they wo...

Brad Berman World Since 1945 12/17/2001 Clintonian Materialism Clintonomics, the successor of Reganomics of the 1980's and early 90's brought post-Baby Boom prosperity and an unprecedented era of wealth to the United States without regard for long-term world peace. The United Sta...

A comparison of leadership styles among the 2008 US presidential candidates and which styles have been most successful in business and politics in the past: The 2008 elections in the United States are considered to be one of the most important elections in the recent history of the US. This assessm...

Kyoto Treaty According to an article found in the journal, Harvard International Review, in 1997 one-hundred sixty nations from around the world met in Kyoto Japan to discuss global climate change and to implement a strategy for correcting the problem (Zepeda, 2004). As a result of this meetin...

The term executive privilege is defined by the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (2001) as the "exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congre...

The American Monarchy: Analysis of President Bush's Use of the Executive Order "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda Cool." Paul Begala, former counselor to President Bill Clinton, put it best when he was quoted in regards to President Clinton's increased use of execut...

Social Policy IMMIGRANTS' BENEFITS CONTINUE TO BE STICKING POINT IN HOUSE WELFARE DEBATE Efforts to restore aid to legal immigrants cut in 1996 have polarized members of Congress despite political benefits Republicans are sending an update of welfare law to the House floor that promises a modest...

November 2, 2004, may mark a new beginning for our country. The Bush An administration that began with so much promise and hope for our country has fallen far beyond my expectation. From family values, the economy, foreign policy, gun control, and the environment are just a few of the issues that ...

The master described by Lao-Tzu is a great diplomat who governs his people justly. The master shows that he is not egocentric because of his unrelenting duty to the people. His devotion to his position and his love for his countrymen create a symbyosis between the king and his kingdom which only r...

Unless you have been hibernating in a cave somewhere off the coast of Madagascar for the past six and a half months, you know about and have experienced the historical year 2000 presidential election. Since day one there has been mass coverage not only of the candidates, but also of their families,...

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...

Political Autobiography As a child, I was exposed to a very meager lifestyle. My father was a college student through the years of my early childhood (1982-1989), and my mother juggled two jobs while taking care of my older sister and myself while helping put my father through college. We lived ...

Al Gore has played an important role in the United States. Still today he contributes to his country. Thing happened periodically in Al gores life to make him the man that he has become today. Al Gore jr. was born on March 31, 1948. Since the day he was born his parents were proud of him. His...

Since the United States has become one of the most authoritative nations in the world, they have taken on the position of protecting petty, insubstantial countries from harm. However, so many wars are going right now that the United States cannot get involved with all of them. The United States shou...

Introduction The definition of euthanasia means "easy death". Today we refer to euthanasia as mercy killing "the voluntary ending of a life of someone who is terminally or hopelessly ill." Thesis Today I am here to persuade you to support the group known as the "Pro-Life...

Voting defines democracy. Voting is the fundamental right of almost all American citizens over the age of eighteen. In insures that the will of the people is preserved. The essential difference between America and a dictatorial nation such as Iraq is the right of our citizens to choose between tw...

I find a certain amount of difficulty when I attempt to offer an assessment of Baumgartner and Jones' work, Agendas and Instability in American Politics. The reason for this is because the book is written in such a manner that it is enormously difficult to offer a conflicting argument to th...

Imperfect Perfection "When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."(Nixon Quotes). These immortalized words were uttered by one of the most criticized presidents in United States history. Richard Nixon committed many crimes and believed that just because he was the Comman...

Since 1856, two political parties have been dominant, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. As they have butted heads, no other party has been elected to the office of president. In fact, the only time a third party received more votes than the Republican or Democratic parties was in t...

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...