This division permitted the Democratic Party to gain control of the presidency between 1913 and 1921. ... These complains particularly harmed the minority vote and caused them to favor the Democratic Party. ... In sum, the Republican Party did not publicize themselves enough as being supportive of civil rights, nor were they as aggressive as the Democratic Party which contributed to the party's racial stigma (354-9). ... These men hoped to discover the Democratic Party's campaign strategy for the presidential election that year. ... This caused minorities to distrust the Republican P...

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His maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Fell, one of the founders of the Republican Party, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and was the first to suggest that he should run for president. ... He couldn't resist the pressures caused by President Truman and other party leaders, so he agreed to challenge the Republican candidate, Dwight D. ... Even after the election, Stevenson continued to play a large role as leader of the Democratic Party. ... Although hesitant to engage in political competition, he gave into pressure and became a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but was defeate...

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He won the primary and defeated Jerry Vorhees, a New Deal Democratic incumbent, in the genera; election of 1946. ... Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to Democratic senator, John F. ... Humphrey and the conservative third party candidate George C. ...

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., five men broke into the campaign headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. ... The men were going to photograph papers and tap into the phone lines to discover the Democratic Party's strategy to elect their presidential candidate. ...

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After Johnson announced that he would not accept or seek another Presidential nomination from his party, this left the field open for two people, Nixon and Robert Kennedy. ... Hubert Humphrey would win the Democratic vote at the convention and would be the representative of the Democratic Party for the election of 1968. This might have been the only good thing to come out of the Democratic National Convention that year. ... However, he didn't take the war very easily, he fought very hard to show that the war had to be fought in order to stop the spread of communism and ensure a demo...

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Brown v. board of education of Topeka- case in 1954 the U.S supreme court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. The decision declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal. Ho Chi minh one of ...

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William Buckley charged that he had done nothing for the Republican Party and nothing to develop a Conservative Republican philosophy of government and had, in fact, left the "New Deal- policies of FDR intact. ... Goldwater challenged the Republican Party and the nation to return to traditional conservative principles and values. ... Also out of the ashes of Goldwater's defeat, came several men who would grow the radical conservative movement and create and implement the strategy that would defeat the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); elect Ronal Reagan Governor of Cali...

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June 17, 1972. Five burglars were arrested inside the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. What seemed like an ordinary break-in became the beginning of a long chain of events that led to the first ever resignation of an American president. Watergate scandal has forever chan...

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YAF as a Reflection of Protest Culture Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is an organization of college students who are on the conservative Right of the Republican party. ... While less radical and violent than the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), their approximate liberal equivalent, YAF was generally a very successful college political organization. Few groups of young people have been influential enough to take over a political party and get a candidate nominated for the presidency of the United States, as YAF was able to do with the Republican party and Barry Goldwater in the...

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Kennedy usually backed bills sponsored by his party but would sometimes show independence by voting with the Republicans. ... Despite Kennedy's wavering within his own party platform, John F. ... Kennedy wanted the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, and almost as soon as the 1956 election was over, he began working toward it. Kennedy announced his candidacy early in 1960 and by the time the Democratic National Convention opened in July, had won seven primary victories. ...

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Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. This began with the wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. ... A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. ... President Nixon faced almost certain impeachment for his illegal acts against the Democratic Party. ...

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The president and his administration prosecuted anyone who seemed deceitful to their country and involved with the Communists party. ... The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. ... The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... Even though that was courageous act one of the most memorable demonstrations held at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. ...

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Nixon The break-in at the1972 Democratic National Committee offices contained within the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. later became known as just "Watergate". ... He defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. ... Before the election there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. ...

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His campaign strategies were to unite the Republican party and he appealing to voters in border, southern, and western states by enunciating conservative policies that distinguished the GOP from the liberalism of the Democrats and the more conservative views of the American Independent party. ... George Wallace of Alabama, candidate for the American Independent party. ... Later the Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States and him and Nixon signed a nuclear nonaggressive pact and several agreements in science, transportation, and culture. ... It consisted of the ...

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Serving as a Vice President, a core member of both House of Representative and Senate, many believed that the 1960 election will be a landslide victory for Nixon and his Republican Party. ... Kennedy managed easily outmaneuver the other candidates for the Democratic Party. ...

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The Communist Party believed that the American people were growing war-weary and that they could humiliate Johnson and force the United States to hand over south Vietnam. ... In any event, in late March 1968, a disgraced Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek the Democratic Party's re-nomination for president and hinted that he would go to the bargaining table with the Communists to end th! ...

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In another ruthlessly fought campaign, Nixon managed to find a link between her voting record and that of the American-Labor-Party congressman from New York, Vito Marcantonio, who was widely regarded as pro-Communist ( ). ... "Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell took to television to demand that Nixon be thrown off the Republican ticket- ( ). ...

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Richard M. Nixon journey to the White House began in a small, musty corner in Southern California called Yorba Linda. He was born there on January 9th, 1913, the second of five sons of Frank Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon. The Nixon's were Scot-Irish and the Milhous's of Irish English decent were members of the Quakers. His parents named him Richard after the Richard the Lionhearted. ...

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Then in 1930, a Vietnamese man by the name of Ho Chi Minh and his followers organized the Indochinese Communist Party, which opposed to the French Rule. The Indochinese Communist Party, which was later called the Vietnamese Communist Party, began to grow stronger and by 1945 the group was ready to fight for the independence of Vietnam once more. ... The land of Vietnam was finalized on July 20, 1954 at the Geneva Conference on Indochina which declared North Vietnam under the communist rule of Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam under the democratic rule of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. ...

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AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and dec...

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