Presidents by BRAYLEI REESE https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2 en-us 2023-05-19 18:00:26 UTC 2023-05-21 05:14:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Richard M. Nixon #37 (1969-1974) brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597885619 -1969-1973, 1973-1974
-#37
-Republican
-Previously served as a U.S. representative and senator from california After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
-It focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China. 
- Watergate scandal: The scandal included a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, and subsequent cover-up by people who worked for or with the White House, and by Nixon himself
-During Nixon's tenure, spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all increased dramatically. It grew from $27.3 billion in 1969 to $67.4 billion in 1975. while the poverty rate dropped from 12.8 percent in 1968 to 11.1 percent in 1973
-In December 1973, he signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, establishing a trial federal program to promote and encourage the development of HMOs
-The US foreign policy during the presidency of Richard Nixon focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China.



]]> 2023-05-19 18:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597885619 Gerald R. Ford #38 (1974-1977) brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597893605 -1974-1977
-#38
-Republican
-August 9th 1974 Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office and became our 38th president.  From 1965 to 1973, he was House Minority Leader. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913, he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He starred on the University of Michigan football team, then went to Yale, where he served as assistant coach while earning his law degree. 
-The United States foreign policy during the 1974-1977 presidency of Gerald Ford was marked by efforts to de-escalate the Cold War. He focused on maintaining stability and promoting detente with the Soviet Union. One of his key foreign policy achievements was the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975.
-Much of Ford's focus in domestic policy was on the economy, which experienced a recession during his tenure. After initially promoting a tax increase designed to combat inflation, Ford championed a tax cut designed to rejuvenate the economy, and he signed two tax reduction acts into law.
-His first major act when taking office was to grant a presidential pardon to Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal, prompting a major backlash to Ford's presidency.
-There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.

]]> 2023-05-19 18:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597893605 Jimmy Carter #39 (1977-1981) brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597900172 -1977-1981
-39
-Democrat
-He was awarded the 2002 nobel peace prize. Was born October 1, 1924 in plains Georgia.  Upon graduation in 1946 from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Carter married Rosalynn Smith. 
- His administration placed a new emphasis on human rights, democratic values, nuclear proliferation, and global poverty. He believed that previous administrations had erred in allowing the Cold War concerns and realpolitik to dominate foreign policy. 
-March 16 - Senate ratifies first Panama Treaty. October 13 - Civil Service Reform Act Signed. October 15 - Congress passes first energy package.
- Carter proposed an economic stimulus package that would give each citizen a $50 tax rebate, cut corporate taxes by $900 million, and increase spending on public works.
-Carter faced a mounting series of domestic economic problems, including increases in gasoline prices, rising inflation, and rising unemployment.



]]> 2023-05-19 18:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597900172 Ronald Reagan #40 (1981-1989 brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597933486 -1981-1989
-#40
-Republican
-On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois.He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer.
-The main goal of the foreign policies during Reagans presidency was winning the cold war and the rollback of communism. It was achieved in Revolutions of 1989 in eastern europe. 
-January 25 – President Reagan delivers the 1984 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. July 17 – President Reagan signs the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. July 18 – President Reagan signs the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.
-Reduce marginal tax rates on income from labor and capital. Tighten the money supply to reduce inflation. Reduce the growth of government spending. Reduce regulation. 
-Congress passed the Gramm Rudman Hollings Balanced Budget Act, which called for automatic spending cuts if Congress was unable to eliminate deficits through the regular budget-making process.
-He generally avoided or downplayed social issues such as abortion, homosexuality, and racial integration. He spoke out for prayers in public schools but did not promote a constitutional amendment to allow it. 
-His focus was fighting drugs.
 
]]> 2023-05-19 19:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597933486 George Bush #41 (1989-1993) brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597939865 -1989-1993
-#41
-Republican
-Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924, he became a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover. On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the armed forces. The youngest pilot in the Navy when he received his wings, he flew 58 combat missions during World War II.
-The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, replaced by the Post-Soviet states (Russia and 14 other countries). German reunification in 1990, with the democratic West Germany absorbing the ex-Communist East Germany. 
-5.1 Panama: Operation Just Cause. 5.2 End of the Cold War. 5.2.1 Fall of the Eastern Bloc. 5.2.2 Dissolution of the Soviet Union. 5.3 Gulf War. 5.3.1 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 5.3.2 Operation Desert Storm. 5.4 China.
-In domestic affairs, Bush faced a large federal budget deficit that had grown to threefold since 1980. Despite insisting he was pledged to not raise taxes, Bush agreed to a budget with the Democratic-controlled Congress that raised taxes and cut spending.
-Signed a new anti drug law that provides more than $3 billion for expanded anti-drug programs, including treatment facilities, federal prison expansion, education, and law enforcement. 
-The Moscow Treaty, the United States and Russia agreed to limit their nuclear arsenal to 1700–2200 operationally deployed warheads each. 
-He signs the Clean Air Act of 1990, which tightens air pollution standards and seeks to reduce urban smog, cut acid rain pollution by one-half, and eliminate industrial emissions of toxic chemicals by the end of the 20th century. 


]]> 2023-05-19 19:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2597939865 Bill Clinton #42 (1993-2001) brayleireese https://padlet.com/brayleireese/ug947rxrkb6jehr2/wish/2598635200 -1993-2001
-#42
-Democrat
-He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. He was born August 19, 1946. 
-He integrated foreign-policy with economic goals of prosperity and extended trade. He viewed local conflicts in continental and global perspective.
-President Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement eliminating nearly every trade barrier between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, creating the world's largest free trade zone.
-He increases the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour. He also blocked Republican attempts to bar public education to children of illegal immigrants. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton had also vowed to end the exclusion of homosexuals from military service.
-He succeeded in passing an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, giving a tax cut to 15 million of the hardest-pressed American workers. 


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