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The Iran Contra Pardons

The Iran Contra investigation led nowhere frustrating Special Counsel Lawrence Walsh. He felt stonewalled by the Reagan and Bush Administrations...
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The First Bush Presidency

During the 1988 election, political opponents attempted to portray George Bush as a wimp. Candidate Bush worked hard to disprove that notion....
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Operation Desert Storm

Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait to rectify Iraq’s economic woes following the Iran-Iraq War. The international community, led by the United...
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Harry Truman, the United Nations, and the Korean War

On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea hoping to forcibly unify the peninsula. Before the invasion, the United States publicly disavowed...
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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at Houston NFL Game today (Photo)

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush was on the sidelines today in Houston for a NFL game. The former president isn't seen very often these...
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The Boomers roll into Washington: The 1992 Presidential Election

The Soviet Union collapsed, Iraq had been expelled from Kuwait, Panama declared war on America and was trounced, and the US economy slowed down....
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A High Tech Lynching: The Thomas-Hill Affair

By 1991, the Republicans and Democrats fought knockdown, drag-out political brawls over Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, the 1988...
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The Rise of Dick Cheney Began With John Tower's Fall

In 1961, John Tower became the first Republican senator elected in the former Confederacyand the first from a Confederate state in 48 years. He...
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The Dirtiest Election of the 20th Century

The Democrats got thumped in 1984. Americans no longer wanted the New Deal or Great Society. So, the Democrats looked for a new kind of Democrat to...
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Polk, McKinley, and Bush!

James K. Polk, George H.W. Bush, and William McKinley experienced similar accomplishments as president. Each one-term president fought extremely...
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