the secret life of the american presidents

8/8/2019 The Secret Life of the American Presidents

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INTRODUCTIONy Chief Executive. Commander in Chief. Leader of the Free World.

The Big Cheese. Whatever you want to call him, the president of

the Unit Love him or hate him, hes the closest thing we have to amonarch, a figure who encapsulates elements of celebrity and

patriarchy all at once.

y Little wonder, then, that the men who have held the title of Mr.

President have become household names.


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Born in 1732 into aVirginia planter family, helearned the morals, manners,and body of knowledgerequisite for an 18th centuryVirginia gentleman. On April30, 1789, George Washingtontook his oath of office as the

first President of the UnitedStates.


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Adams was born in theMassachusetts Bay Colony in1735. AHarvard-educatedlawyer, he early becameidentified with the patriotcause; a delegate to the Firstand Second ContinentalCongresses, he led in themovement for independence.

He was the president of theUnited States between 1797-1801.


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This powerfuladvocate of liberty wasborn in 1743 inA

lbemarle County,Virginia.

His sympathy forthe French Revolutionled him into conflictwithAlexander

Hamilton whenJefferson was Secretaryof State in PresidentWashington's Cabinet.


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The first

President who was the son

of a President.

Adams urged

the United States to take a

lead in the development of

the arts and sciencesthrough the establishment

of a national university,

the financing of scientific

expeditions, and the

erection of an observatory.


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Born inVirginia in 1784, he wastaken as an infant toKentucky and raised on aplantation. He was a careerofficer in theArmy.

40 years in theArmy

made him a strongnationalist. He spent aquarter of a century policingthe frontiers against Indians.


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The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had tostruggle for a living and for

learning.As President, he built the Republican Party into a strongnational organization. He alsorallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.On Good Friday, April 14,1865, Lincoln was assassinatedat Ford's Theatre in Washington by John WilkesBooth.


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Rutherford B. Hayes

Beneficiary of the mostfiercely disputed election inAmerican history, RutherfordB. Hayes brought to theExecutive Mansion dignity,honesty, and moderate reform.

He fought in the CivilWar, was wounded in action,and rose to the rank of brevetmajor general.


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THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Roosevelt was president, writer,naturalist, and soldier.

He was the second of four children born

into a long-established, socially

prominent family of Dutch and Englishancestry.

Elected as a Republican to the New

York StateAssembly at 23, Roosevelt

quickly made a name for himself as a foeof corrupt machine politics.


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John Fitzgerald Kennedy


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During his Presidency,

Nixon succeeded in ending

American fighting in Viet Namand improving relations with

the U.S.S.R. and China. But

the Watergate scandal brought

fresh divisions to the countryand ultimately led to his

resignation.


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The only movieactor ever to become president. His

policies have been credited withcontributing to the demise of Sovietcommunism.

At the end of histwo terms in office, Ronald Reaganviewed with satisfaction theachievements of his innovative

program known as the ReaganRevolution, which aimed toreinvigorate theAmerican people andreduce their reliance uponGovernment.


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Politician and businessman,former vice president of the

United States between1981and 1989, Bush

assembled a multinational

force to compel the

withdrawal of Iraq fromKuwait in the Persian Gulf

War.


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42nd president of the UnitedStates, Clinton oversaw thecountrys longest peacetime

economic expansion. In 1998 hebecame only the second U.S.president to be impeached; he wasacquitted by the Senate in 1999.

During the administration ofWilliam Jefferson Clinton, theU.S. enjoyed more peace andeconomic well being than at anytime in its history.


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43rd president of theUnited States, Bush led hiscountrys response to the terrorist

September 11 attacks in 2001 andinitiated the Iraq War in 2003.Narrowly winning the electoralcollege vote over Vice Pres. Al Gorein one of the closest and most

controversial elections inAmericanhistory, George W. Bush became thefirst person since Benjamin Harrisonin 1888 to be elected presidentdespite having lost the nationwidepopular vote.


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He went on to attend law

school, where he became

the firstAfrican

American president of the

Harvard Law Review.

He was elected the 44th

President of the UnitedStates on November 4,

2008, and sworn in on

January 20, 2009.


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America may have become as the saying goes the country off all possibilities, due to its

famous presidents. Their strong character,determination and wisdom brought America to itsglory and huge prosperity.

I believe we should continue to regard these

gentlemen as great managers of the future of theircountry and nation and thank them for their devotion ,after all, they have one of the hardest job in the world.

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