President Blog Discussion:
Jimmy Carter:
- only US president to have received the Nobel Peace prize after leaving office.
- had been a peanut farmer and governor or Georgia before being President.
- strongly emphasized human rights as President. has been a very active former President.
- he was a one term president.
- not a popular president.
- known as the green president because he passed a lot of acts for the environment.
Ronald Reagan:
- was a radio broadcaster in Iowa.
- was an actor.
- governor of California.
- was in military service.
- very popular president.
- survived an assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
- supported anti-communist movements worldwide.
- opposed to detente.
- ordered a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR.
- we had close ties with our allies and the USSR didn't.
- China started siding with us after 1972.
- the soviet economy was in shambles whereas US's was flourishing.
- brought the Cold war to an end.
- Reaganomics-what republicans believe in today.
Soviet Mistakes:
- invasion of Afghanistan.
- ignoring social concerns.
- spent everything on military.
George H.W. Bush:
- served as a vice president of the United States under Reagan.
- was a congressman from Texas.
- Was Ambassador of the US to the United Nations.
- Director of the CIA.
- currently the oldest surviving former president.
- Iraq invaded Kuwait because they felt like they were stealing their oil.
- Coalition force victory, Iraq withdraw from Kuwait, destruction of Iraq/Kuwait infrastructure.
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