William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton was the 42nd president of the United States of
America from the year of 1993 to 2001. He was initially named William Jefferson Blythe on
the day of his birth on 19 August, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, but changed surnames after his
mother remarried four years later. He studied law in Yale Law School where he met his wife,
Hilary Clinton. Prior to his election as president, Clinton was the State’s Attorney General
from 1977 to 1979, and was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1991.
He was dubbed as the third youngest president and the first from the Baby Boomer generation.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th president of the United States of America, serving
from 1981 to 1989. He was born
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In fact, total economic growth was almost identical, averaging about 4
percent per year, with Reagan edging out Clinton by less than 1 percentage point for the total
eight-year period.
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Additionally both presidents shared many ideals, such as the opinion that Marijuana is
a gateway drug; meaning that it is a drug thought to lead to the use of other dangerous drugs
such as cocaine or heroine. As such, Reagan made an effort to create the Anti-Drug Abuse Act
of 1986, giving the war on drugs a budget of $1.7 billion, and increase the severity of the
punishments for any drug related offences. Similarly Clinton, in his effort to prioritise
education, created the President Clinton’s Safe and Drug Free Schools and Community Act,
signing the Safe and Drug Free Schools Act on October 20, 1994, and submitting and fighting
for the most comprehensive drug control budget
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During his time, he received a letter from a citizen thanking Reagan for
allowing the death penalty as the reminder of it to his assailant saved his life. However, during
his eight years of presidency, only one man was executed for the crime of murdering a police
officer. Clinton, on the other hand, had other laws passed down to limit crimes. For gun
control, he signed the Brady Bill which imposed a five day waiting period to purchase a
handgun so that background checks can be performed on the buyer, thus helping keep
criminals from buying firearms. As with Reagan, Clinton was a supporter of capital
punishment, as such the Crime Bill was created to expand the number of offences illegible for
the death penalty, and implemented the “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” provision. He also
arranged to have more police officers patrolling around communities.
Even thought the two presidents have even more areas they agreed on during their
term, the differences are still present. For instance Clinton greatly agreed on charging the
wealthy and upper class citizens with higher taxes, thus lowering the burden on indigent
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citizens, and although Reagan had the best in mind for all taxpayers, he strongly disagreed
Calvin Coolidge was president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Calvin was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. John, his father, was a farmer who worked in the Vermont House of Representatives and the state and with other local offices. He helped his father sell apples and doing chores around the store and at the farm. His mother, Victoria, died when was was twelve and his sister Abigail died several years later.
Due to the unprecedented expansion of the war on drugs by the Reagan administration started a long period of skyrocketing rates of incarceration. The huge number of offenders incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenders increased from 50,000 to 1980 to over 400,000 by the year 1997. In 1981, Nancy Reagan began a highly publicized antidrug campaign called “Just Say No”, as public concerns arose due to the portrayals by the media about people addicted to a smoke-able form of cocaine dubbed as “crack”. This campaign set the stage for zero tolerance policies implemented in the late 1980’s.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the thirty-sixth president of the United States, he became president in 1963. Johnson was born in Texas and he graduated from Southwest State Teachers College. According to history .com during Johnson’s college career, he taught disadvantaged children to help pay for his education”. “This experience helped shaped Johnson 's desire to fix problems concerning poverty and discrimination”.
He started economic reforms called, “Reaganomics” which spurred growth and cut taxes for others. By this you can see that he really cared for the rights others had. I also think that it showed how wise he was to create his own reform that assisted the people economically. This helped because it reduced the growth that the government was spending. This is another important thing he did for us.
Before becoming the seventh President of the United States, and before the Trail of Tears and the conquering of the National Bank, Andrew Jackson was a war hero and a man tough enough to earn the reverent nickname of Old Hickory. On January 8, 1815, Major General Andrew Jackson led the American forces to victory against the British at the Battle of New Orleans, the battle that is considered the last of the War of 1812, even though the Treaty of Ghent had already been signed. As Mike Scott (2017) put it, it was a battle that was “an unlikely American victory that changed the course of the city’s, and the country’s, history.” The Battle of New Orleans is a great piece of history that occurred within our own state that is always worth
The Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) is an act initiated by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, and passed by Congress, to become law on August 3, 2010 (Phillips 2012 ). The FSA intent is to reduce the gap between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to initiate federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio. The FSA also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for the possession of crack cocaine (Reid 2012). The FSA replaced the controversial Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADAA) of 1986, that was seen as a racially bias, expensive, and unfair legislation from the Reagan Administration 's “War on Drugs” from the mid 1980s ().
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president in the United States. Believe it or not, when Reagan first started out as a politician, he was a member of the democratic party. Reagan then converted to the republican party. After his conversion, Reagan won the Presidential of 1980 and 1984 for his second term. Reagan started his own war on drugs during his presidency.
Francis Richard Lubbock “What we see depends on what we look for.” - Francis Lubbock. Francis Lubbock was a man who greatly impacted the future of Texas. He and his family had such an impact that, Lubbock, Texas and Lubbock County were named after them. Francis Lubbock lived during the Civil War in the United States, and was a part of the Confederate States of America.
How were the Clinton policies similar to the Reagan-Bush policies? The Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations stretched through the years 1981 to 2001 and with each inaugural address, the incoming president would announce to the United States that changes would be made to benefit the majority of Americans rather than the few. Despite what was said, their actions contradicted their campaign speeches. The change in political parties in power created an illusion of change among American citizens.
1980s Music The 1980s was a decade where many things changed drastically. The music industry in the 1980s experienced major changes, mostly due to the political and economic changes, and new trends and inventions. In the 1980s, America changed both economically, and politically.
Reagan helped train the Middle East to defeat Russia, thus taking down the Berlin wall and helping Berlin become a democracy. Although Reagan had many accomplishments during his term, the main thing he is known for was the reduction taxes and coming up with the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which simplified the way taxes were taxed and coded. Reagan’s philosophy of less government, influenced that the less the people were taxed, the more they would spend. His term lasted from
Option 1 Bill Clinton was 46 years old when he went into office, making him the youngest President since John F. Kennedy. He was also the second U.S. President to be impeached; however, not just bad things happened during his time in office. Clinton was President from 1993 to 2001, and he accomplished many things for the United States during that time. For example, he was able to create more jobs and drop the unemployment rate significantly. He also played close attention to issues in the education system.
General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the drug abuse in the United States both throughout history and currently. Central Idea: The War on Drugs was first brought up on 1971 by Richard Milhous Nixon our 37th president. The budget to initiate the war on drugs was roughly 100,000,000 million dollars, currently as we speak for every 21 seconds a drug arrest is taking place in the United States according to drugpolicy.org.
Research Essay: “Why did American soldiers use drugs during the Vietnam War and what was the impact of their drug use?” There was a significant impact of drug usage by American soldiers during the Vietnam War, which became an increasing problem for the US army and government. Many soldiers started using drugs and became addicted. This had a huge impact on America when Vietnamese war veterans had to return to America once the Vietnam War ended in 1975. This essay will uncover why American soldiers started taking drugs and what the impact of their drug usage was by examining the chosen sources.
As of recent, the war on drugs has been a very often discussed topic due to many controversial issues. Some people believe the War on Drugs has been quite successful due to the amount of drugs seized and the amount of drug kingpins arrested. I believe this to be the wrong mindset when it comes to the war on drugs. The war on drugs isn’t a winnable one so we must do all that is possible to assist those who struggle with drug addiction and decriminalize small amounts of drugs. These minor changes in the way we combat drugs will create significant change and have lasting effects.