https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj en-us 2020-05-22 02:47:54 UTC 2025-11-02 06:10:30 UTC hello@padlet.com kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588239478 -Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. 
-He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address 
- "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."]]> 2020-05-22 02:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588239478 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588241686 -During his few weeks as vice president, Harry S. Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. 
-Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman's when, on April 12, 1945, he became president. 
-He told reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me."]]> 2020-05-22 02:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588241686 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588242775 -Bringing to the presidency his vast experience as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II
-Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the growth of postwar prosperity. In a rare boast he said, 
-"The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. . . . By God, it didn't just happen I'll tell you that!"]]> 2020-05-22 02:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588242775 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588243330 -On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, 
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot to death as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. ------Kennedy was the youngest man elected president; he was the youngest to die.]]> 2020-05-22 02:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588243330 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588244120 -A"Great Society" for the American people was the vision of Lyndon Johnson. 
-As president, he obtained passage of one of the most significant legislative programs in the nation's history
-He found his presidency overwhelmed by opposition to his war in Vietnam.]]> 2020-05-22 02:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588244120 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588244757 -When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, he declared that his goal was "to bring the American people together." 
-The nation was painfully divided, with turbulence in the cities and war overseas. 
-During his presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Vietnam, improving relations with the Soviet Union.]]> 2020-05-22 02:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588244757 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588245520 -Jimmy Carter promised a government "as competent, as compassionate, as good" as the American people. 
-His achievements were notable, but in an era of rising energy costs, mounting inflation, and increasing world traumas
-He found it difficult to meet Americans' high expectations.]]> 2020-05-22 02:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588245520 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588246886 -Through Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, the cold war came to an end, the country seemed to regain its morale -Americans enjoyed an extended economic boom.
-Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to John Reagan, a shoe salesman, and his wife Nelle in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911. ]]> 2020-05-22 02:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588246886 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588247479 George H.W. Bush brought to the White House a wish for Americans to be “points of light.” He created Points of Light, a foundation to promote the importance of volunteerism, a position that succeeding presidents have acknowledged and shared. Having come from a family with a tradition of public service, Bush felt the responsibility to make his contribution in times of war and peace.]]> 2020-05-22 02:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588247479 kylealdridge5 https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588248414 -Bill Clinton could fairly claim that his presidency had been among the most successful in modern times. 
-He presided over economic expansion and achieved the first budget surplus in decades.
-With the exception of such efforts as his bold early plans to balance the budget and revamp health care, his policies were not especially provocative. ]]> 2020-05-22 03:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kylealdridge5/g81uzdaimicj1aoj/wish/588248414