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Vor 3 Stunden · Manly Hall’s book inspired President Ronald Reagan’s 1989 farewell speech to the nation when the spoke of the US as the ‘shining city’ blessed by God (Hall 2008; Wikipedia 2022). More recently, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo proclaimed that America ‘will overcome any challenge from Communist China and to the terrorist regime in Teheran’ because ‘we are that shining city on a hill ...
Vor einem Tag · Détente was partially a reaction against the policies of the previous 25 years, which had brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war on several occasions, and because the US was in a weakened position following the failure of the Vietnam War. As part of détente, the US also restored ties with the People's Republic of China, partially as a counterweight against Soviet expansionism.
Vor einem Tag · The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory . Carter's unpopularity and poor relations with Democratic leaders encouraged an ...
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Vor einem Tag · The book outlines Cheney's recollections of 9/11, the War on Terrorism, the 2001 War in Afghanistan, the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War, so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and other events. According to Barton Gellman , the author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency , Cheney's book differs from publicly available records on details surrounding the NSA surveillance program .
Vor einem Tag · Spiro Theodore Agnew ( / ˈspɪəroʊ ˈæɡnjuː /; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign the position, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832. Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant ...
Vor einem Tag · At EPA, Reagan appointed William Ruckelshaus, the EPA's first director and a committed environmentalist. He reversed Gorsuch's policies. Vice President George H. W. Bush typically kept close to Reagan on most issues but in this area he announced that if elected he would be the nation's "environmental president." The long run results of Reagan's ...
