May 16th

[6Jilian]

Harry Truman

*         33^rd president

*         May 8^th 1884 in Lamar, MO-died December 26^th 1972

*         Baptist

*         Married June 28,1919

*         Piano, avid reader, couldn’t afford to go to college

*         Give Em Hell Harry

*         Poor eye sight 

*         Ran against Thomas E. Dewey

*         At the beginning he had 90% popularity and then went down in 1952, right after came back up to 31%

*         Kind of thrown into presidency 

*         Known for dropping bombs on Nagasaki

*         “The Buck Stops Here”

*         Recognized Isreal for home place for Jews

*         “Ended WW2 with the atomic bombs and led us into the cold war”

*         Fair Deal

• Blacks
• Ed.
• Old people
• Much didn’t pass due to politics

Eisenhower

*        Born in 1890

*        Grew up in Abilene Kansas

*        General in WW2- 5 stars

• Assumed command over NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

*        2 terms

• 1952
• 1956
• Both against Adlai Stevenson
• “I like Ike”

Accomplishments

*        Desegregated the Army and Schools

*        Brown vs. the board of education in Topeka, Kansas

*        NASA

*        Balanced the budget

*        Ended the Korean War

*        People to People International

*        Interstate Highway System

*        Civil Right Bill of 1957

*        Little Rock Mob Control

*        Furthered Social Security

*        The Eisenhower Doctrine

*        65% Average approval rating

 John F Kennedy 

I had him for my presentation. I have all my notes on him. 

JFK act. 

Warren report!!! 

Lyndon Baines Johnson 

• School in Johnson City, Texas 
• College at Texas State University 
• Was a teacher for public speaking after college 
• Southern democrat 
• He and kennedy fought while he was vp 
• 37th vp 
• 1st and only pres to be sworn in on aircraft 
• only pres to be sworn in by a women 
• The Great Society 
  • speech about what he wanted for our country 
  • medicare 
    • help elderly pay for hospital care 
  • Medicaid 
    • help poor pay for hospital care 
  • civil rights acts 
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 
  • no poverty 
  • wanted equality 
  • trying to remove segregation 
• President during Vietnam war 
  • big push for U.S. 
• Life after Presidency 
  • Went back to the country and wrote books 
  • If no health problems, maybe would've ran for president again 
• Death 
  • January 22, 1973 
  • 2 days after Nixon started 2nd term, 1 day before Vietnam ended 
  • died of heart attack 
  • smoke 60+ cigs a day 
• Accomplishments 
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 
  • Voting Rights Act (1965) 
  • Affirmative action laws 
  • The Great Society 
    • Headstart pre k
    • Education! 

Richard M. Nixon 

• Early Life
  • January 9, 1913 
  • Yorba Linda, CA 
  • Duke University 
  • Law School 
  • Married Thelma "Pat" Ryan 
• Politics 
  • Joined Navy til 1946 
  • November 1946 he joined house of rep. 
  • Very anti-communist 
  • U.S. Senator in 1950 
  • Vice President - Eisenhower 1952-1960
  • Checkers Speech 
    • dis proved them and said the only gift he got from the money was a dog named checkers for his daughter
  • Election of 1960 
    • Kennedy and Byrd 
    • Kennedy won 
  • Election of 1968 
    • Nixon vs. Humphrey and Wallace 
    • won by 500,000 pop. votes 
    • January 20, 1969 Nixon was 37th president of U.S. 
  • Election of 1972 
    • Nixon vs. McGovern 
    • Won with 20 mil more votes 
  • 10 Accomplishments
    • Very "green" president 
    • Desegregation of southern schools 
    • Welcomed Apollo 11 astronauts 
    • Passed the 26th amendment 
      • allowed 18 year old to vote 
    • Signed Title 9 
      • Allowed women to get equal pay for jobs, scholarships, etc. 
      • In H.S. they had fair court times and more womens sports 
    • "Vietnamization" 
      • bombing of Laos and Cambodia 
    • Visited China 
      • helped reduce china and u.s. tension
      • helped us get more allied with china 
    • 1973 Yom Kippur War 
      • Israel 
    • Watergate scandal
      • burglars went into water gate complex and stole top secret documents and bugged phones. it was the headquarters for the democratic party. they were members of CREEP. 
      • June 17, 1972 
      • burglars caught in Watergate complex (big office motel in d.c.)
      • Nixon claimed he wasn't involved 
        • later discovered that Nixon was involved 
        • CIA tried to stop FBI from investigating the water gate 
      • August 5, 1974 nixon released the tapes 
      • August 8, Nixon resigns 
      • September 8, Ford comes in 
    • Popularity 

Gerald Ford 

• Background 
  • Born July 14, 1913 
  • Star college football player @ michigan 
  • served in navy 
  • died in 2006 
• Presidential Election 
  • Took over w/out being voted in 
  • Ford ran again and lost to Carter in 1979 
• Achievements
  • Economic Policy Board 
  • Whip Inflation Now - WIN 
  • Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974 
  • Freedom of Info Act 
  • Privacy Act of 1974
• Approval 
  • Highest and Lowest in 1974 
• First unelected president 

Jimmy Carter 

• Background
  
  • Born October 1, 1924 in Georgia 
  • Married to Rosalynn Carter 
  • Had 4 children 
  • Democratic 
• Legacy 
  • 39th president
  • won Nobel peace prize in 2002 
• Achievements
  • Department of Energy 
  • Department of Education 
  • Brokered Israel-Egypt treaty 
  • Install Solar Panels on the White House
  • Boycotted the 1980 Olympics 
  • Granted amnesty to Vietnam Draft-Dodgers
  • Established diplomatic relations with China
  • Pushed for comprehensive health care reform 
  • Returned the Panama Canal to Panama 
• Wasn't liked due to 
  • High gas prices 
  • Bad economy 
  • Iran Hostage Crisis 

Ronald Reagan 

• Early life
  • February 6, 1911 
  • Was an actor 
• Elections 
  • Republican 
  • 1980 and 1984 
• Accomplishments 
  • Shot on March 30, 1981 
  • Trickle down economy 
  • Inflation and unemployment rates went 19% to 9%
  • Peace through strength 

George H. W. Bush 

• Early Life 
  • Born June 12th, 1924
  • Married Barbara Pierce and had 6 children 
  • Made lots of money from oil 
• Political Career 
  • VP for Reagan 
  • Office as President end of the Cold War 
  • High approval 
  • Raised taxes 
• Accomplishments 
  • New Anti-Drug Law 
  • Arms Reduction Agreement
  • Americans with Disabilities Act 
    • forced people to put in things to help those with disabilities 
    • many rebuilded
  • Semi-Automatic Rifle Ban 
  • Lowest approval rating was 30%, highest 90%
  • Persian Gulf War 
    • August 1990-February 1991 
    • Saddam Hussein (Ba'ath) (Iraq) invaded Kuwait in August 2, 1990 
    • Operation Desert Sheild 
      • sent thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia , right next to invaded Kuwait 
      • thought that maybe if we had a bunch of troops next to Kuwait, he would surrender or leave 
    • Opeation Desert Storm 
      • U.S. invaded Kuwait through ground and air attacks to protect them from Iraq 
      • Month or 2 we free Kuwait 
      • Never invaded Iraq 
    • Results
      • Coalition Force victory, Iraqi with drawl from Kuwait, destruction of Iraqi/Kuwaiti infrastructure
    • Coalition- 482 dead, Iraq- 20,000-35,000 
    • 1991-2003
      • No-fly zone 
        • 2 lines in Iraq that Saddam couldn't have anyone stationed in 
      • Weapons Instructors 
        • check for bad weapons 
      • WMD's
    • • Saddam Hussein played cats and mice games with the U.S. 
    • ,How did the Persian Gulf War eventually lead to 911? 
      • Afghanistan 
        • We were helping people fight off communist 
          • Gave them money, weapons, supplies 
        • Mujahadeen (idk how to spell) 
          • who we helped 
          • eventually became the taliban 
        • Since 1990 we have been in Middle East and they don't like it 
          • they started attacking us 
          • think we are trying to take over