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By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United...
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Ronald Reagan, the governor of California and a former actor, took the presidential oath of office on January 20, 1981. He had defeated former president Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election by focusing on the nation's high levels of unemployment and inflation, and famously asked the country "Are you better off today than you were four years ago? " Along with a new Republican majority in the Senate, Reagan set out to massively increase the nation's defense...
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During his inaugural address after his 1980 election, President Ronald Regan argued that the problems facing the nation would best be solved by a reduction in the size and scope of the federal government. His philosophy, alongside an economic plan called Reaganomics, ushered in a new conservative era that would remain until the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.
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During his first inaugural speech on January 20, 1981, President Ronald Regan famously declared that "in this present crisis, government is not the solution to the problem, government is our problem". This philosophy guided Regan to attempt to balance the budget and cut what he deemed government waste, and it ushered in a new era of conservative government.
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When he took the oath of office on January 20, 1981, President Ronald Reagan pledged to cut the nation's taxes, reduce government waste, and instill a massive increase in defense spending. The United States was currently in the midst of a sustained period of inflation, which raised the cost of living and led to widespread unemployment. Reagan's contention that "in this present crisis, government is not the solution to the problem, government is our...
9) Our Nixon
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Newly uncovered Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides – and fellow Watergate conspirators – offer an intimate and surprising new glimpse into his presidency.
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A key component of John F. Kennedy's presidential platform was the establishment of a national service organization. In his 1961 inaugural address, he reaffirmed his commitment to public service, challenging Americans to "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Shortly after, President Kennedy announced the creation of the Peace Corps.
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"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...
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This program with Bill Moyers examines leadership, the presidency, and the presidential election of 1992. Featured in the program are Abraham Zaleznik, author of Learning Leadership; Steve Pieczenik, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Fernando Moreno, editor of El Diario, who talks about the Latino voice in the elections; and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communications, who analyzes the campaign itself and...
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Candace Crowley moderates the second presidential election debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. In this debate, the participants discuss domestic affairs and foreign policy in a town hall style format. Romney and Obama highlight their positions on unemployment, workplace equality, energy, taxes, immigration, Benghazi, gun control, and manufacturing.
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In this October 3, 2012 ABC News debate, presidential candidates President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney respond to Jim Lehrer's questions about their positions on reducing the federal deficit, creating jobs, individual and corporate tax rates, financial regulation, changes to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and the federal government's role. Romney says raising taxes will kill jobs and advocates raising revenue by lowering deductions,...
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Frail and failing but determined to see the war through to victory, FDR wins re-election and begins planning for a peaceful postwar world, but a cerebral hemorrhage kills him at 63. After her husband's death, Eleanor Roosevelt proves herself a shrewd politician and a skilled negotiator in her own right, as well as a champion of civil rights, civil liberties and the United Nations. When she dies in 1962, she is mourned everywhere as the First Lady...