Hannah Drossman's List: HISTORY AA III

• Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917.
• Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy.
• Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate
• He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953.
• In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history.
• Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
• "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
• get America moving again.
• economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II
• equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation.
• quality of the national culture
• dedicated to the revolution of human rights
• With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps
• Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength
• new efforts in outer space
• While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away.
• a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion

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• Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law
• Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law.
• In 1940, he married Patricia Ryan; they had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie.
• During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific.
• elected to Congress from his California district.
• In 1950, he won a Senate seat.
• Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate.
• revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program.
• appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court.
• 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing
• During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R.
• In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina.
• treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons
• break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign
• "Watergate" scandal
• officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President
• Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.
• Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."

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• devotion to the Baptist faith
• seven years' service as a naval officer
• elected Governor of Georgia
• increase of nearly eight million jobs and a decrease in the budget deficit

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• Monday, Mar. 08, 1976
• "I'll  never tell a lie," he assures voters. "I'll never knowingly make a misstatement  of fact. I'll never betray your trust. If I do any of these things, I don't want  you to support me."
• softspoken, low-keyed, ever smiling Southerner
• he has been "twice born"—the second time when  he "committed" himself to Jesus.
• started running for the  presidency in his friendly, dogged way.
• neither a knee-jerk liberal nor an ideologue
• says that religion is the most important thing in  his life

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• New England, a true Connecticut Ivy League Yankee
• well-rehearsed down-home Texas style
• overcame a nasty drinking problem when he found religion
• In July of 2004, Bush told an Amish group in Pennsylvania that "God speaks through me."

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• A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.
• "No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
• "Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s,"
• President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 66 percent
• The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war, while 68 percent opposed it.
• The poll's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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