The question that is on a lot of minds in regard to this case is what are these people afraid of? ... They are afraid of a man born of a white mother and an African father, who went to a Muslim school, and belonged a racist black church. ... They hear stories about cheating in the caucuses, and Black Muslims intimidating people at the polls, and their mistrust grows. ... Obama is so conscious of how much these people fear and loathe him, that he will be watching his P's and Q's very carefully. ... The powerful are getting more powerful, as the common people lose much of their s...

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Often, when a woman was claimed harassment, people viewed her as crazy, or that she brought it upon herself. ... Alice Paul and the National Women's Party began using more radical tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution: picketing the White House, staging large suffrage marches and demonstrations, going to jail. ... During Wilson's second inauguration in 1917, Paul led a march around the White House (www.womenshistory.about.com/library)."...

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As the title of the book indicates, Nixon was alone in the White House. ... He even suggested leaving out the soup course Nixon did not like to have to confront people. ... Haldeman was the person who fired and insulted people. ... Nixon lived up to what he thought was a normal reaction and he believed that most people were like him. ... He would often remind people that "The Jews voted 95 percent against me." ...

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Most people were distrustful of the bank, as it had enormous power to ruin state banks and was basically unresponsive to the people's needs. ... Jackson was pushing for the people of this country! ... Arguably, white expansion was not to blame. ... A People and A Nation: A History of the United States. ... A People's History of the United States. ...

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The following is an excerpt from his famous speech: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." President Lincoln himse...

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We, the Southern White Farmers, do strongly support President and General Andrew Jackson as we right well do prosper under his strong leadership, he can relate to us farmers, bein' an "ordinary" man and a white southerner himself- unlike those well to do city folk, and he is "a man of the people who works on their behalf." We consider Jackson "A man of the people who works on their behalf"-the people being us american farmers- because he strived and succeeded to remove the issues such as the Native Americans and the United States Bank hindering the good of th...

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It was a way for white supremacist to continue oppressing the African American population, but eventually began effecting poor white individuals as well. ... In James Agee's novel Cotton Tenants we receive an actual account of the struggles several families faced during these hard times and how it affected the people of the community. Individuals had nowhere else to go after slavery was abolished, and the social latter was comprised of white elected officials. ... By the end of FDR's presidency the new deal ended up as a failure in the eyes of the people. ... FDR's plan als...

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Democrats would have us believe that many people will not vote for Barack Obama because they are afraid. ... The 'race card' has been played so long and so well that most white voters now think it's a joke. ... Those white kids were innocent. ... Most people who don't agree with such teachings would have found another church long ago. But most people don't join a church to make political connections, either. ...

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Many people back then did not like Japanese people pre and post World War II, In the photo "Japs Keep Moving - This is a White Man's Neighborhood," there is a woman standing outside of a structure that will not allow Japanese people to enter with a sign in the window that says "Japs keep out". ... It's a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or the brown men. ... They offer higher land prices and higher rents than the white man can pay for land. They undersell the white man in the markets. ... They work their women and children while the whi...

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Watergate really began in 1969 when the White House made an "enemies list"; which was kept of the people whom the president's men wanted vengeance on. ... Nixon and his administration began a huge cover-up of McCord's connection with the White House. ... Up until James McCord wrote a letter to Judge Sirica, White House involvement in the Watergate burglary was not at all apparent. ... McCord "ratted" on several people and in return they accused other White House and CRP officials (Time of Transition 38). ... The White House said that two of the conversations had never really been tap...

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This day marked the first day in history that colored people and white people went to Central High School together. ... She talks about all the things that the white students did to them. ... Clinton talks about how urban schools now consist of many minorities because the white families moved to the suburbs. ... I think that we have a mixture of people in schools because of these brave students. ... I guess people change and realize what's good and bad, as they grow older. ...

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The one thing a man must bring into the White House with him if he is to succeed, is a character that people come to recognize as high, sturdy, and reliable. ... You can hire clever, and White Houses are filled with people ready to advise on how to flip a senator. ... We have noticed in life that big people with big virtues frequently have big flaws too. ... The people for instance, that are stationed on board the USS Ronald Reagan? ... They were born when he walked into the White House. ...

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Subsequently, American people lost trust in government and in the political system itself. ... Nixon was also outraged at the leak of information in the White House. ... The atmosphere at the White House was one of . ... In the hotel, police found papers linking the suspects to the White House. ... Following the money, they uncovered the link between the burglars and the white house. ...

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It's all about impressing the people. ... They will do whatever it takes to accomplish becoming the president; whether that means stepping all over people along the way, or kissing up to even people you despise. ... Those issues and bills that they were trying to pass in the movie would never stand a chance in The White House today. ... Also, I really don't think that lobbyists come into the White House and jump up and down on the chief of staff. ... People these days don't sit around the Oval Office saying, "Oh my God, we"re at 48 now!! ...

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On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton gave an address regarding his affairs while in the White House that perfectly framed the picture that he intended the public to see. ... I misled people" (Clinton 133). By using the phrase false impression so closely followed by "I misled people" the impression that is left by the subconscious is that there is a false impression that he misled people. ... There are many opinions that people had whether this address made Clinton appear remorseful. ... On August 17, 1998 President Clinton gave a his address regarding his affairs while in the White ...

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The Progressives were people who were part of a movement that started in the cities. ... This way people could vote for legislation on Election Day. ... This act was passed with a wide support in Congress, but it was not enforced until Roosevelt was in the White House. ... Their actions might have stepped on a few toes here and there, but for the most part the American people embraced their policies, and showed this by sending three successive Progressive Presidents to the White House (Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson). ...

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B), he argued that the control of the bank was not in the ands of the common people, but instead in the hands of foreign people and the rich populous of the nation. ... Since people other than the common controlled the bank, the Democratic Jacksonians disapproved of this. ... E) about riots in Philadelphia and New York were among the lower class Irish, the minority, and the white Americans exhibited an example of class and economic diversity. ... This and the removal act of 1830 were anti-Native American acts that showed a great lack of equality between white Americans and Native Americans....

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He was known as the "people's president" for being first President to invite the public to attend the White House ball in honor of his first inauguration. The invitation of public to the White House ball brought many poor people that came in their dirty homemade clothes. The amount of people that came to the ball led to the guards not being able to hold the crowd back and with people pouring into the white house expensive dishes got broken, furniture got ruined from people standing on them with their muddy shoes, and tubs of punch were even put out in the front lawn to lure th...

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He believes that we've been given a "black and white" version on the war instead of the "colorized" version that exists in real life. ... He states that the American government is not as interested in liberating the Iraqi people as it is in getting oil and trade. He goes on to write that the Iraqi people have every right to be mistrustful of the current foreign invasion because in the past they have had nothing but bad experiences with America and Britain in the past. ... It needs to stop painting things in black and white and have a more balanced, in-between point of view. ...

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Around this time, the Environmental Defense Fund, also known as the EDF, was coming up with way of their own to approach the current problems with pollution, and they came up with the conclusion that people hate being told what to do, and they wanted to give people a chance to turn a profit. ... This was also around the time that global warming was starting to become a huge problem, but EDF and the Bush White House both felt that emissions trading, or Cap and Trade would be the best way to address this challenge. ... These misunderstandings extended to the White House itself. When Bush's...

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I attended a meeting with some members of the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in Portland. ... The organization was founded in 1909 as the NNC in an effort to renew the struggle for political and civil liberty among Blacks in a White America. ... This group has lead the way for many African Americans to have the same God given rights as White Americans in their own communities. ...

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Expanded voting rights allowed not only rich white land owners the right to vote but the lower-class person the ability to vote as well, so Jackson really pumped up the interest factor in politics by opposing both the national bank and tariffs which a good number of voters disliked. The spoils system Jackson put into effect allowed him to make his friends part of his presidential cabinet and fire any of the previous employees of the White House. Jackson also just allowed his federal employees to serve a maximum of four-year terms in order to make room for other "common people." ...

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Richard Nixon's desire to be reelected and his imperial role would shock the nation and bring scandal to the White House. ... The men were "plumbers," people who kept information from the media. ... The White House quickly began covering up the scandal. ...

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The country had become extremely "soft" in the eyes of people such as Theodore Roosevelt. ... As immigrants increasingly migrated to the United States, Americans began to realize that foreigners were procreating at exponential rates of white Protestants. ... " Roosevelt referred to this phenomenon as "race suicide," which basically implied that this idea of only utilizing intercourse to reproduce, rather than for simple pleasure, was limiting opportunity to increase the white protestant population, while the immigrant population was doing the opposite. In essence, the...

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In this speech, he admits to American priests that he had a relationship with Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House, and he had sinned. ... President William Jefferson Clinton had been accused of having sexual relations with an intern at the White House shortly before his re-election campaign in 1996. ... The American people felt ashamed to have him as our President. ... But Clinton was successful in reaching the American people through his speeches. ... He used such tactics to make the America people believe what he was saying. ...

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