This
is the first site that pulled up on http://yahoo.com which is where I began my search
of U.S. Presidents. I decided to do Barrack Obama Because He is after all the
current President of The United States of America.
While I was a this site I learned. That his
Grandfather Severed in Patton's
army-Cited http://www.Whitehouse.gov After
working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student
loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of
churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel
plants.-Cited Whitehouse.gov
I then looked
over to the left on the site to find out that they have all of our U.S.
Presidents listed over on the side there at http://whitehouse.gov
. To my surprise I knew very little about JFK. Some of the facts on the
page are.
In 1955, while recuperating from a back
operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in
history. In 1956 Kennedy
almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years
later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television
debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow
margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President. Shortly after
his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and
trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel
Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign
against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and
increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer
space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin
Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe.
Instead, the
Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was
discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed quarantine on
all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of
nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The
American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the
futility of nuclear blackmail.
President, James
K. Polk is the third President I found interesting I had no idea how much
territory he won. OR for the record that there was a war why he was president.
He was born in
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1795. Studious and industrious, Polk was
graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina. Congress
declared war and, despite much Northern opposition, supported the military
operations. American forces won repeated victories and occupied Mexico City.
Finally, in 1848, Mexico ceded New Mexico and California in return for
$15,000,000 and American assumption of the damage claims, President Polk
added a vast area to the United States, but its acquisition precipitated a
bitter quarrel between the North and the South over expansion of slavery. –
Cited http://www.whitehouse.gov
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Is my
Fourth Choice as my pattern continues I did not know as much about him as a
President as I before had thought I had known. This key time may have inflated
the Government over time to the inflation rates we see today.
In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed
with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court,
which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme
Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the
Government could legally regulate the economy. Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations
between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning
of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be
settled. AS the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on
April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral
hemorrhage. – cited http://www.whitehouse.gov
Abraham
Lincoln
Is my Fifth
and final President not saying that he is any less interesting that any of the
other presidents. He in the past few years is gaining reputation. For good
reason he is becoming even more Notorious than before.
Lincoln
thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law
and the Union. When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its
surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave
states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War
had begun. Lincoln won
re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In
his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging
Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was
assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who
somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with
Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. – Cited http://www.whitehouse.gov
I tried to
put AS much information in as possible that is little known to the public as I will be posting this online.
