U.S. Presidents
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:David Herbert Donald

“B EYOND THE PALE OF HUMAN ENVY ” Lincoln and William H. Seward ON November 16, 1862, Virginia Woodbury Fox recorded a delicious piece of gossip in her diary. “Tish,” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Troy, Gil

An Economy Fueled by Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders? Creative financing became increasingly important in reviving corporate America. “Junk bonds,” low-rated, high-yielding issues for new but potentially very profitable ventures, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Gerald Blaine & Lisa McCubbin

13 Breakdown Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. —JOHN F. KENNEDY NOVEMBER 22, 1963 There are moments in history that change the world forever. Time ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Joseph E. Persico [Persico, Joseph E.]

Chapter 25 “CLOSE TO BEING A WIFE” THERE WAS NEVER A COMPLETE BREAK between Franklin and Lucy. Given distance and long separations, the signal might become faint at times, but ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward

Another thing Elliott said, which is important, is that a story is going the rounds that the reason this Hughes plane [the D -2] is to be made is only ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Joan Mellen [Mellen, Joan]

Johnson embraced being President, entertaining at his Texas ranch foreign dignitaries, like the German chancellor, the press, and politicians. His character may be illuminated by his telephone call in 1966 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

Eisenhower, on August 15, told the reporters that he expected that Hitler would end up hanging himself, but before he did he would “fight to the bitter end,” and most ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris DeRose

Charles Ingersoll of Pennsylvania wrote his daughter that this was “a useful lesson on the vanity of human wishes.” 81 Perhaps Lincoln felt a similar wistfulness. No one had experienced ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-10 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER FOUR The Chance for Peace April 1–June 30, 1953 E ISENHOWER, ACCORDING TO C. D. Jackson, suffered from an “exaggerated desire to have everybody happy,” which prevented him from ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Caro

Moses often built structures just because the projects secured him more money and power Developing areas without consulting residents was certainly an expression of Moses’s disinterest in other people’s views, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:ROMESH RATNESAR

Griscom asked Reagan if he had any thoughts on the speeches for his European trip. In Rome, he would make brief remarks before meeting with Pope John Paul II, a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Sean Andrews [Andrews, Sean]

* * * Teddy Trivia Alfred Thayer Mahan began his U.S. Navy career as an officer in the American Civil War. He believed naval power was the key to strong ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benazir Bhutto [Bhutto, Benazir]

10 TWO MORE YEARS ALONE IN SUB-JAIL Familiarity. Comfort. Home. Leaving aside the fact that the paramilitary Frontier Forces were once more posted inside the compound walls and a prison ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Michael Giorgione

THE TWO MIDEAST summits are irrevocably linked with Camp David, but in 2012 President Obama decided to perform his own version of mountaintop diplomacy—minus the rancor. G8 “made my tour,” ...
( Category: History & Theory March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:James C. Humes

Courage No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Crime It’s time . ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 17,2020 )