Goldwater was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 1, 1909. Three years before Arizona was admitted into the union. In 1896, Barry’s grandfather opened up a store called M. Goldwater & Sons. He took over his family’s department store before thinking about a political career. They sold the store in 1962 to Associated Dry Goods Corp. of New York. It sold for $2.2 million, and they also assumed almost $2 million in debt for the Goldwaters’ store books. Goldwater graduated top of his class in a military school, who was sent there after his disastrous freshman year of high school. After graduation he returned to Arizona and enrolled at the University of Arizona. Barry dropped out of college in 1928 to work full time after his father’s death. (Barnes, A01)
Early on in his store owning career he purchased a design called “antsy pants” which was a white cloth with little red ants all over them, that design was a huge success. In 1930, he decided he wanted to learn how to fly, he got up before dawn every morning to go fly. That ended up becoming a huge part of his adult life. He took his flying skills to the Air Force and served in the United States Air Force.(Barnes,A01)
After his time in the Air Force, when he got back to Arizona, he decided he didn’t really want to run a department store anymore. He then started with his political career. "Don't cuss me too much. It ain't for life, and it may be fun," Mr. Goldwater told his brother, Bob, in explaining his decision to run for public office.”(barnes,a01)
Barry Goldwater was a five term U.S. senator from Arizona and a champion of conservatism. In his 1964 presidential candidacy launched a revolution within the Republican Party. Goldwater retired from Senate in 1986 as one of his party’s...
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...ing.” He was known as a contradicting man to many people. He didn’t have very good relations with news media people. He often said that he was misinterpreted by the media. Goldwaters aids asked them to “write what he means, not what he says” Goldwater also says that he would have voted against himself in the 1964 campaign if everything that was said or written or on television about him was true.
“In his personal and political memoirs, ‘With No Apologies,’ published in 1979, Mr. Goldwater observed that his run for the presidency in 1964 ‘was like trying to stand up in a hammock.’ He said he knew that his chances of winning were slim and contended that his fellow Republicans cost him any chance he might have had during the battle for the Republican nomination.” (Barnes,A01) Goldwater more often than non had to reiterate himself after his speeches, interviews, ect.
Paul Wellstone knew that, as Kennedy wrote, “it would be more comfortable...joining whomever of our colleagues are...enslaved by some current fashion” (17). But he understood that true statesmanship is putting the national interest above one’s own benefit. Wellstone, in a time of conformity, showed courage and strength in risking his political life for an ideal he cared deeply about. Perhaps the best description of Wellstone’s character came from a colleague, Sen. Barbara Mikulski: “He didn’t look ahead to the next election; he looked ahead to the next generation” (CITE
The "Checkers Speech" saved Nixon's career, what was left of it.. Eisenhower kept him on the ticket just because of his looks and he went on to serve eight years as Vice President. He wanted to win by a lot. In 1960 Nixon ran for President, losing a close race to John F. Kennedy. The smell of hope. He was paranoid. Two years later he lost a bitter race for Governor of California to Pat Brown and retired from politics, telling the press, "There is always next year. He was paranoid.
Lindbergh’s passion for mechanics didn’t come as a surprise to many. As a young boy, Charles seemed to be very interested in the family’s motorized vehicles, such as the Saxon Six automobile and Excelsior motorbike. But after starting college in the fall of 1920 as a mechanical engineer, his love for aviation started to bloom. Deciding that the field of aviation was more exciting, he dropped out within 2 years. He then decided to take lessons at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school and was up in the air for the first time on April 9, 1922 when he was in a two seat biplane as a passenger. But his solo flight would not be until May 1923 at the Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, an old flight training field where Lindbergh came to buy a World War I Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane. It only took half an hour to practice with another pilot at the field to decide that Lindbergh was ready to fly the plane himself. After a week of practicing, Lindbergh took off on his biplane on his first solo cross country flight and few weeks after that, achieving his first nighttime flight near Arkansas, both marking huge milestones for the young pilot.
He was the one who asked Congress to pass a law that would make Native Americans move west or follow state laws. After the act was passed, he embarked on enforcing the new law. He thinks this is just and liberal. Also, that it would let Native Americans keep their way of life. He is such a big supporter that he ignored the Supreme Court’s advice.
This again can be seen in the persona that they champion. In his paper “Presidential Address George W. Bush’s Cowboy Politics: An Inquiry” Stanley A. Renshon explores George W. Bush’s psychological state of mind and presents a man who is intimately tied to his home and his country. President Bush followed, and strove to uphold, a great moral and ethical code in the form of the constitution, just as Moskowitz states the mythical cowboy does. Renshon describes President George W. Bush as fiercely independent, and “his own man”, again characteristics associated by Moskowitz with the chivalric and romanticized mythical cowboy.
Millions of viewers tuned into the National Broadcasting Company television network for a special broadcast on the 27th of October. Viewers were anticipating Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech. Reagan was acknowledged for his acting in motion pictures and television episodes since 1937, and was now being seen in an unfamiliar role. Reagan emerged in support of the Republican nominee Barry Goldwater. Barry Morris Goldwater was a businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election. “A Time for Choosing” was effective, because he gave personal examples to capture the audiences’ attention, and gave humor to a tough subject.
Troy, Gil, See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate (Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
During the weak presidencies of Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant, Congress emerged as the dominant branch of government with power centered in the committee system. Two republican senators helped show this and the moral quality of the legislative branch. The first is Roscoe Conkling. Conkling was a Republican senator of New York. During this time period, many citizens agreed that...
To get a feel for how Lyndon Johnson came to achieve greatness, let us look at how his journey began. In 1908, Lyndon was born on a farm near Stonewall, Texas to his loving parents Samuel and Rebekah. His father was a man who had a love for politics and instilled it into his son at an early age. Lyndon would hide “under tables or stand behind doors, straining to hear every word of his father’s evening bull sessions with political friends” (Schulman, 7). His father would also take him on trips with Sam Johnson, a member of the Texas State Legislation. On such trips, he learned his father’s liberalism and also learned a strategy of Sam’s by “getting really close to someone, nose to nose, when he wanted to convince them of something” (7). These tactics and others such as Sam’s honesty in regards to not taking bribes were characteristics which helped mold him.
Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14th, 1946 (Ask Men 3). The fourth child of Fred and Mary-Anne Trump, Donald was born into wealth and prosperity. His family operated the profitable New York real estate developing company, specializing in middle-income housing, Elizabeth Trump & Sons (Biography 2). Trump was an energetic child and was sent to military school during his teen years to learn disciple (Ask Men 5). He succeeded at The New York Military Academy and became a star student, football, baseball, and soccer player (Encyclopedia of World Biography 2). Graduating in 1964, he momentarily considered pursuing a film degree but instead decided to enroll at Fordham University, and later transfer to The Whorton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania. During the summer, Trump would work with his father in the real estate industry, gaining experience. It was during this time him and his father undertook the revamping of a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, The Swifton Village. After investing only a half a million dollars into the units, him and his father were able to reach 100% occupancy in two years and turned over a $6 million profit (Korte 4). He graduated from The Whorton School with a degree in economics in 1968 (Encyclopedia of World Biography 4).
With the opinion of the American people becoming more allowing of low-level drug use, and the successful monetary generation in states like Colorado, we are now seeing viable alternatives to spending billions of dollars in failed efforts to restrict drug use, unfair imprisonment of minorities, and a dependence of drug users on violent cartels. The opinions of society is ever-changing, and this will certainly have an effect on our drug laws an policies. It is apparent that the negative stigma surrounding recreational drug use -at least with marijuana- is slowly diminishing.
William Jennings Bryan was an American politician from Nebraska that supported the Democratic Party (William Jenning 's Bryan Cross of Gold). William Jennings Bryan supported the free silver movement during the 1800’s (William Jenning 's Bryan Cross of Gold). It was thought to be that William Jennings Bryan was much like the cowardly lion; he was fierce in nature but cowardly in his public power (William Jenning 's Bryan Cross of Gold). William Jennings Bryan spoke a great argument but had little effect to making significant
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