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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|House Ways and Means Committee]] from [[1841]] to [[1843]] and was an author of the [[Tariff of 1842]], as ...d States to abandon its non-intervention policies when it came to European affairs and recognize Hungary’s independence. The problem came with the enormous
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  ...United Nations]] (1971&ndash;1973), chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]] (1973&ndash;1974), [[United States Ambassador to China|Chief of the Unite ...3]], just three days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date.<ref name="navy"/>
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• Directory:William McKinley
  .... He was chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|Committee on Ways and Means]] from 1889 to 1891. In 1890, he authored the [[McKinley ...which pleased the [[United States Congress Conference committee|Conference Committee]] and became law. The act was signed by the President [[July 24]], [[1897]]
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...= [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] ...he "[[spoils system]]" a recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs. The Bucktails became a loyal faction with a large amount of party loyalty,
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...e also led the way to world [[Navy|Naval]] disarmament at the [[Washington Naval Conference]] of 1921&ndash;22. ...the [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs|Department of Veterans Affairs]]), the first permanent attempt at answering the needs of those who had ser
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...til 1861. He oversaw the opening of the [[United States Naval Academy|U.S. Naval Academy]] and the [[Smithsonian]], the groundbreaking for the [[Washington ...]. Polk's younger brother, [[William Hawkins Polk]], served as [[charge d'affairs]] to the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]] during the Polk administration<ref
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  ...aker Sam Rayburn. Johnson was immediately appointed to the [[Naval Affairs Committee]]. He worked for rural electrification and other improvements for his distr ...d into the peacetime "business as usual" inefficiencies that permeated the naval war and demanded that admirals shape up and get the job done. However, John
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...st in English history. Partly because the English kings were occupied with affairs at home, the Virginia house of burgesses was able to continue its functions ...the capital since 1699), led by Richard Henry Lee, formed an intercolonial committee of correspondence. The Virginia leaders proposed (May, 1774) a congress of
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...wald had acted alone in killing the president; however, the [[House Select Committee on Assassinations]] declared in 1979 that there was more likely a [[conspir ...]]'' from Harvard with a degree in [[International relations|international affairs]] in June 1940, and his thesis was published in July 1940 as a book entitle
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...d and conquered by [[North Vietnam]]. Ford did not intervene in Vietnamese affairs, but did help extract friends of the U.S. Domestically, the economy suffere ...onist Movement of 1940–1941 As Revealed in the Papers of the America First Committee (Hoover Archival Documentaries) |publisher = Hoover Institution Press |acce
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...[[anti-war]] movements. He paid surprisingly little attention to military affairs, but provided the funding and food supplies that helped the Americans in th ...= Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) | publisher = Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia | date = 2005-01-14 | url = http://www.americ
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...w the provincial legislatures were fully sovereign over their own internal affairs, and that the colonies were connected to Great Britain only through the Kin ...ht|300px|[[John Trumbull]]'s famous painting depicts the five-man drafting committee presenting their work to the Congress. John Adams is standing in the center
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• Directory:Iran
  ...ed by Arabs, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, and others--and often caught up in the affairs of larger powers--Iran has always reasserted its national identity and has The president supervises the affairs of the executive branch, appointing and supervising the Council of Minister
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  | alma_mater = [[United States Naval Academy]] <br/> [[Georgia Southwestern College]] <br/> [[Georgia Institute ...was unable to make the USA less reliant on foreign oil sources. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the [[Camp David Accords]], the [[Panama Canal Treaties]] a
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• Directory:Harry S. Truman
  ...nator]]. After he gained national prominence as head of the wartime Truman Committee, Truman replaced vice president [[Henry A. Wallace]] as Roosevelt's [[runni ...ency was also eventful in [[Foreign relations of the United States|foreign affairs]], with the end of [[World War II]] and his decision to use [[nuclear weapo
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• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...aining the rank of [[lieutenant commander]]. He received his training at [[Naval Air Station Quonset Point]], [[Rhode Island]] and [[Ottumwa, Iowa]], before ...opponent's [[Congress of Industrial Organizations|CIO]] [[Political action committee|PAC]] support showed that Voorhis was collaborating with [[communist]]-cont
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...er with [[Emile Francqui]], who led the ''Belgian National Relief and Food Committee.'' The CRB became, in effect, an independent republic of relief, with its o ...mployed a newly formed Quaker organization, the [[American Friends Service Committee]] to carry out much of the logistical work in Europe. Against the oppositio
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...onstitution]]. 26 changes were made from Jefferson's original draft by the Committee of Five.<ref>[http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org Declaration of In ...the painting actually depicts is the [[Committee of Five|five-man drafting committee]] presenting their work to the Congress. Trumbull's painting can also be fo
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  Roosevelt had affairs outside his marriage, including one with Eleanor's social secretary [[Lucy ...tland]]. In 1918, he visited [[UK|Britain]] and France to inspect American naval facilities; during this visit he met [[Winston Churchill]] for the first ti
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...bill died in the [[United States Congress Conference committee|conference committee]]. Dispute over the tariff would carry over into the 1888 Presidential ele ...Fuller accepted the Supreme Court nomination, and the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] spent several months examining the little-known nominee.<ref name=nevins4
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