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  Dick Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1978, Cheney was elected to represent Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives to replace resigning Congressman Teno Roncalio, defeating his Democrat opponent, Bill Bagley.
U.S. forces arrested Noriega and flew him to Miami where he was held until his trial, which led to his conviction and imprisonment on racketeering and drug trafficking charges in April 1992.
All proceeds of the options will be split between the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates, Inc. for the benefit of the Cardiothoracic Institute, the University of Wyoming for the benefit of the University of Wyoming Foundation, and Capital Partners for Education for the benefit of low-income high school students in the Washington, D.C. area.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > George Clinton, 4th Vice President (1805-1812)
George Clinton studied under a Scottish clergyman to prepare for his future responsibilities, interrupting his education at the age of eighteen in 1757 to serve in the French and Indian War.
Clinton's aptitude for surveying and his penchant for land speculation eventually made him one of the wealthier residents of Ulster County, but, despite his considerable fortune, he was a man of frugal habits and congenial, unassuming manners.
Clinton remained an attractive vice-presidential prospect for Republican leaders hoping to preserve the Virginia-New York nexus so crucial to their strategy, although he was never entirely comfortable with the southern wing of the party.
senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_George_Clinton.htm   (5031 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - George Clinton, vice president of the United States (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Clinton's defense of the Hudson, although courageous, resulted in the capture of Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery by the British general, Sir Henry Clinton.
Clinton's views on the Constitution were opposed by a rapidly growing party, the Federalists, under the leadership of John Jay.
Jay, running against Clinton for governor, lost the election of 1792 only by a questionable manipulation of returns on the part of the Clintonians, and in 1795 Jay won with ease, Clinton having declined to become a candidate.
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 US Vice - Presidents - George Clinton
Young George Clinton had been a good student and was able to pass the bar exam for the Colony of New York when he was only 16 years old.
Clinton was an experienced outdoorsman and was able to use his friendship with the Indians to his military advantage.
George Clinton’s aid and support of George Washington’s army during their dark days at Valley Forge was no doubt a major factor in helping the United States gain its independence, but his place in history has been so overshadowed that only those who take the time will know who he was or what he did.
www.juntosociety.com /vp/gclinton.html   (629 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Clinton, George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
CLINTON, GEORGE [Clinton, George] 1739-1812, American statesman, vice president of the United States (1805-1812), b.
As a result of his alliance with the Livingstons and Aaron Burr, Clinton became governor for a seventh term in the Republican triumph of 1800; he still holds the record for longest-serving New York governor-22 years.
George W.--master of disguise: spouting patriotic rhetoric and enjoying the support of fellow Republicans, George W. Bush has masqueraded as a conservative while actually advancing a liberal agenda.
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 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
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george kenneth hotson younger, 4th viscount younger of leckie
/george william frederick villers, 4th earl of clarendon
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TITL: U.S. Presidential Trivia COMP: Contributions from the entire PEST community MODI: MVER: 2.63 NOTE: Any student of the subject knows a that thorough knowledge of presidential trivia makes for a solid foundation to all that is American trivia.
Bill Clinton Andrew Johnson ?Eleven articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson were adopted by the House of Representatives on March 2 & 3, 1868 and the trial began in the Senate March 5, 1868.
George Washington James Monroe ?George Washington in 1792 and James Monroe in 1820.
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 The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - Bill Clinton as VP: Can He or Can't He?
Clinton is not constitutionally ineligible from being president.
Clinton is only prohibited from being elected, not being president, therefore he is technically allowed to become vice president and hence president.
Posted by: Gary Backlund at March 4, 2004 01:50 PM Because of the “Resign and let the VP take it” loophole, I’m reasonably sure that the “shall be elected” loophole would be struck down by the Supreme Court as being totally in violation of the spirit of the 22nd amendment.
www.command-post.org /2004/2_archives/010733.html   (2561 words)

  
 US Presidents
Until George Bush, he was the last VP to be elected to succeed the president under whom he served.
VP: James Sherman (died in office 10/30/1912 of Bright's Disease between nomination and 2nd election).
US Navy P-3 rammed by Chinese pilot and made emergency landing on Chinese Island.
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 BILL CLINTON VS GEORGE BUSH
But, if Clinton were somehow able to run against George Bush (a 3-peat), what he and George did about 9-11 would be fair game in judging their performance side-by-side.
However, even if you were to accept the proposition that Clinton did not do all he could, that does not excuse George Bush from not doing all he could.
George Bush is running for President and he's running on his record of fighting terrorism and being a wartime president.
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 Informed Comment: 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004
When the US recently categorized the MEK as a terrorist organization, there were howls of outrage from "scholars" associated with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (a wing of AIPAC), such as ex-Trotskyite Patrick Clawson and Daniel Pipes.
The US is perceived as culturally insensitive for its actions in the holy city of Najaf.
George Gedda of AP reminds us of the opposition to an American invasion of Iraq expressed after the Gulf War by George Bush senior and his secretary of state, James Baker.
www.juancole.com /2004_08_01_juancole_archive.html   (16411 words)

  
 In These Times | Missing U.S.-Iraq History
George H.W. Bush urged Saddam to use greater ferocity in waging his war with Iran, advice that led the Iraqi air force to bomb civilian centers in Tehran and other Iranian cities in 1986.
Others suggest that Clinton was tricked by the wily elder Bush with promises that a pullback on the Iran-Iraq investigations might win Clinton some bipartisanship with the Republicans in Congress, a tantalizing prospect that turned out to be a mirage.
Prior to trying the Teledyne case, Clinton’s Justice Department declared that its investigation “did not find evidence that U.S. agencies or officials illegally armed Iraq.” But the review noted, curiously, that the CIA had withheld an unknown number of documents that were contained in “sensitive compartments” that were denied to the investigators.
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 The Washington Monthly
Clinton built up FEMA by expanding the ability to plan for disasters, react to coming disaster, mitigate future disasters and build the preparedness infrastructure at both the Federal, State and Local level.
In the 90's under the management of Clinton and Gore Federal Agencies were effective, even the US Post Office once a sinecure got lean and mean.
During the Chicago heat wave (previously the deadliest US natural disaster of the last decade), thousands of poor elderly people came out of the woodwork--people who live at the utter margins of our society beyond even the gaze of the local government.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_08/007014.php   (7763 words)

  
 US Presidents: Lists and Records
George Clinton - Thomas Jefferson's VP, failed to defeat James Madison in the primary.
Henry Wallace - Franklin Roosevelt's VP, was a Democrat and became a Progessive.
George Washington - accused of murdering a French ambassador during peacetime.
www.heptune.com /preslist.html   (1661 words)

  
 Timeline US Presidents to JFK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Washington was appointed President of the US by the Constitutional Convention and accepted office at the Federal Building of New York.
George Clinton, the seven-term governor of New York, was elected vice president under Jefferson and again under Madison in 1808.
Mexico ceded one-third of its territory to the US including California, agreed to the Rio Grande as the boundary between Texas and Mexico and was awarded $15 million.
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 US Presidents
Late in the campaign, Hughes finds himself caught in the middle of a ferocious internecine Republican feud in California, between the conservative faction and the progressives, led by Senator Hiram Johnson.
Had that fragment of the elctorate -- fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the 73 million voters that year -- voted differently, Richard Nixon would have been deprived of 38 electoral votes and the electoral majority.
The operations, providing assistance to the military activities of the Nicaraguan contra rebels and the sale of U.S. arms to Iran merged when funds generated from the sale of weapons to Iran were diverted to support the contra effort in Nicaragua.
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 "The Mendacity Index" by Washington Monthly Staff
In a 1991 interview with The Washington Post, Clinton said: "The rule was there was no graduate deferment, but you got to finish the term you were in.
In 1995, after deciding to deploy U.S. troops to Bosnia--in violation of a 1993 pledge not to deploy troops without a clear exit strategy--Clinton pledged that they would not be sent "unless I was absolutely sure that the goals we set.
At the start of the 1996 election season, Clinton commented, "Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses." There were no Iowa caucuses when Clinton was a boy.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2003/0309.mendacity-experts.html   (1362 words)

  
 American Presidents on PocketGear.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
George Washington (April 30, 1789 -March 3, 1797) Party: none, VP: John Adams (Federalist policies) 2.
George H. Bush (January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993) Republican, VP: Dan Quayle 42.
George W. Bush (January 20, 2001 - Present) Republican, VP: Richard Cheney Left office early: [A] Assassinated, [D] Died in office of natural causes, [R] Resigned Note: the trial version is limited to the first 10 American Presidents.
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 Tangent Sunset - Presidents of the United States
US VP under Washington, US Diplomat to France, co-signer of Declaration of Independence
US VP under Adams, US Secretary of State under Washington, Minister to France, Gov (VA), drafter of Declaration of Independece
US VP under Reagan, CIA Director under Ford, Chairmain of RNC under Nixon, US Ambassador to UN under Nixon, US Rep (D-Texas), Oil investor
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 Scandal!- US VP's Firm (Halliburton), Nigerian Official in $2.4m Bribery
On Tuesday, a US lawmaker said the military had revealed for the first time that KBR had a contract encompassing the operation of Iraqi oil fields.
Previously, the US Army Corps of Engineers had described the contract given to Halliburton as involving oil well firefighting.
Just like Enron, all the fraud occurs while Clinton is receiving his daily oval office spit shine, and the press pukes want to blame it on Bush.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/910566/posts   (2941 words)

  
 The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: History, The Iroquois & George Washington
In the middle of the American Revolution, George Washington ordered two Generals, John Sullivan and James Clinton, and more than 6,200 men — over 20% of the entire rebel army — to clear-cut and burn these resisting Iroquois nations from one of Earth’s most fertile regions.
He realized that when the time came to discuss terms of peace that rich area could be secured for the young nation only if it was in possession of the Americans.
Hence in The Sullivan Clinton Expedition an inland empire was the stake for which Washington was playing and not merely the punishment of dusky foes on our border.
www.sullivanclinton.com   (1902 words)

  
 US History 1
George Washington (1) - 1789-1793 (vp John Adams)
James Madison (4) - 1813-1817 (vp Elbridge Gerry - died in 1814)
Andrew Jackson (7) - 1829-1833 (vp John C Calhoun - resigned in 1832 - 1 year w/o vp)
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 TribStar.com - Terre Haute, Indiana News - B-Sides: Cheney not first sitting VP to shoot somebody
The vice president has 190 million and one.” The U.S. population has grown since the 1960s, when Humphrey served, so today’s vice presidents must answer to 295 million and one bosses.
Tyler is one of nine VPs to assume the presidency because of death or resignation.
Imagine, Hillary and George Clinton on the same ticket, with their campaign theme song, “Do Fries Go With That Shake?” A Vice Presidents Day wouldn’t seem so dull then.
www.tribstar.com /local/local_story_046231351.html   (1108 words)

  
 US Presidents and Vice Presidents list
For a listing of the Presidents by political party click here.
The purpose of this site is to provide researchers, teachers, students, politicians, journalists, and citizens a complete resource guide to the US Presidents.
If you would like to suggest a Presidential link, report a broken link, or have any comments or questions please use the comment form or the address below.
www.presidentsusa.net /presvplist.html   (98 words)

  
 Politicial Information Resources: Presidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Who was the tallest and the shortest, who were bearded, or left-handed, which president had the most children, which won the most popular vote, by length of inaugural speech, which presidents appear on currency and coins and on and on.
A website funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Humanities to supplement the public television broadcast of "The Presidents," eight presidents from the 20th century are featured: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Check out recent vp's like Dan Quayle, Hubert Humprey or Spiro Agnew...or vice presidents who today are not exactly household names, such as Elbridge Gerry, Richard Johnson, William King or George Clinton.
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 Historical Moments for April 20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21
George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office
Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
www.todayinhistory.com /s0-04-20-death-results.html   (109 words)

  
 US Vice Presidents
The VPs with dates are in the Born Today and Died Today pages.
If you have any good quotes from the missing VPs, send 'em on!
US Presidents US First Ladies English Prime Ministers
www.born-today.com /Today/veep.htm   (59 words)

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