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Online NewsHour: Remembering Vietnam: Carter's Pardon on 2009-11-18
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Just a day after Jimmy Carter's inaguration, he followed through on a
contentious campaign promise, granting a presidential pardon to those who had
avoided the draft during the Vietnam war by either not registering or traveling
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The pardon meant the government was giving up forever the right to prosecute
what the administration said were hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. - 2 more annotations...
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http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/learn-how-to-invest/why-saving-is-for-suckers.aspx?page=2 on 2009-11-04
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Putting it all together, Reynolds thinks the evidence suggests we are still in
the very early stages of the credit cycle, similar to the first seven months of
the 1991-2000 period or the 2003-07 period. In those time spans, people who were
simply saving excess cash in passbook or money market accounts at banks were
throwing money at bankers with virtually no tangible benefit to themselves. -
Different times call for different strategies. Last year you were a sucker if
you were long on stocks. This year you're a sucker if you're not. My suggestion
is that you participate in the recovery of the global economy right along with
the fat cats, instead of serving as their financing vehicle. Despite the recent
advance off the March lows, stocks and corporatebonds 
are still inexpensive relative to the sharp recovery that
likely lies ahead. - 1 more annotations...
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- http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html on 2009-11-03
- Presidential Audio/Video Archive - on 2009-11-03
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CRF-USA - BRIA 19 2 b Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism on 2009-11-03
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Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire
CapitalismBritish philosopher Herbert Spencer went a step beyond Darwin's
theory of evolution and applied it to the development of human society. In the
late 1800s, many Americans enthusiastically embraced Spencer's "Social
Darwinism" to justify laissez-faire, or unrestricted, capitalism.In 1859, Charles Darwin published Origin of
Species, which explained his theory of animal and plant evolution based
on "natural selection." Soon afterward, philosophers, sociologists, and others
began to adopt the idea that human society had also evolved -
In 1851, he published his first book. He argued for laissez-faire capitalism,
an economic system that allows businesses to operate with little government
interference. A year later, and seven years before Darwin published Origin
of Species, Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." - 1 more annotations...
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- Digital History on 2009-11-03
- Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary on 2009-11-03
- Concurrent Sessions, Workshops and Poster Presentations | National Council for the Social Studies on 2009-11-02
- PBS - Frontier House on 2009-11-02
- The Living Room Candidate on 2009-11-02
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