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Kennedy bought up 1,200 high-grade Cuban cigars the day before he was to order a ban on Cuban imports.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/14-things-jfk/story?id=20633994

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Looming over it all is the American descent into Vietnam. The assassination of Vietnam’s President Diem on Kennedy’s watch may have been one of the two biggest mistakes of the war there. The other was the decision to wage a war of attrition on the unexamined assumption that Hanoi would buckle under the pain.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/07/15/was-john-f-kennedy-the-flat-out-absolute-worst-u-s-president-of-the-20th-century-2/

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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which began the process of freedom for America's slaves. The document also allowed black soldiers to for the Union. 5. Abraham Lincoln was a strong supporter of the Thirteenth Amendment that formally ended slavery in the United States.
rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln87.html

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In retrospect, he spent his 35 months in the White House stumbling from crisis to fiasco. He came into office and okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Then he went to a Vienna summit conference and got his clock cleaned by Khrushchev. That led to, among other things, the Cuban missile crisis and a whiff of nuclear apocalypse.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/07/15/was-john-f-kennedy-the-flat-out-absolute-worst-u-s-president-of-the-20th-century-2/

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Abraham  Lincoln was known as “Honest Abe” as a young man – before he became a lawyer or a politician. The name stuck. In 1859 when he ran for president the nickname became his campaign slogan. His own writings show that he valued honesty.
soe.unc.edu/hoh/file.php?id=Honest+Abe+Contextual+Essay.pdf

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Civil War: served as both commander in chief and chief of staff. Lincoln supplied a good deal of the strategic thinking for the nation's armies despite his lack of technical military knowledge. Also, some were fooled by Lincoln's reputation for granting clemency to soldiers and thus felt him too tenderhearted to wage the kind of war necessary to defeat the South. This is not the correct way to analyze Lincoln. He could be plenty tough when it came to plans to defeat the Confederacy.
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln87.html

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He had great political skill in settling disputes among his Cabinet members and generals, especially when they were dealing with adverse circumstances. His leadership style was at the same time shrewd and disarming. He could handle the most outspoken of his opponents in a classic diplomatic manner.
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln87.html

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Abraham Lincoln's leadership was steady throughout the Civil War. His faith in the righteousness of his pro-Union policies kept the Union alive during the darkest days of the Civil War. He was a charismatic, moral leader who had a broad strategic vision of his goal (reuniting the nation like it was before the war started; later, freeing the slaves became a second goal)
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln87.html

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The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 were two United States federal banking acts that established a system of National Banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System. They encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. The Act shaped today's national banking system and its support of a uniform U.S. banking policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bank_Act

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Morrill Act: "An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,"

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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which began the process of freedom for America's slaves. The document also allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union.
http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln87.html

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Imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-imposes-first-federal-income-tax

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Lincoln and the Republican Congress enacted bold legislation that helped create a huge national market, a strong and unified economy governed by national institutions, and a rising middle class of businessmen and property owners.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12884668

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He launched a concerted propaganda campaign to convince the people of Europe that the Union was fighting for republican principles against an aristocratic slave power.
https://newrepublic.com/article/74433/lincolns-foreign-policy

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The Confederacy confidently expected England to escort Confederate cotton vessels or to send British merchant and war ships to southern ports to pick up vitally needed cotton.
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/lincoln-foreign-affairs