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After finally gaining the presidency of the United States Olympic Committee today, LeRoy Walker said his first wish was to go on a retreat with George Steinbrenner and the committee's other newly elected officers. Walker might have to wait awhile because Steinbrenner will have trouble carving out time for such introspective activities.
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When Gerald Ford assumed the presidency of the United States upon the 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon, he chose to continue most of Nixon's national security policy. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger remained in office as the principal manager of national security matters while détente with the Soviet Union continued as a chief U.S. goal. The two administrations differed in that Ford never enjoyed Nixon's foreign policy successes. The Ford administration's accomplishments in arms control were overshadowed by the loss of South Vietnam to the Communists as well as doubts about the enforceability of the Vladivostok arms agreement.
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After he returned from Korea, he was received by an adoring public and he contemplated a run for the presidency of the United States. But people are fickle and those dreams died away after public opinion gave him dim chance for success.
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By 1860 Abraham Lincoln was on his way to national fame and the presidency of the United States. But in the early 1850s Lincoln did not hold an elective office and wasn't interested in seeking one. Lincoln had already held a variety of elected offices in the 1830s and 1840s and by the 1850s he was focusing on his prosperous legal career and raising his family. He never totally strayed from politics...--and gave speeches in support of other candidates. While the national slavery debates were still controversial in the nation--Lincoln and many others were relying on a fragile political peace to keep the country from civil war. That peace was maintained through a series of compromises designed to hold a balance of power between states that allowed slavery and those that prohibited it. These compromises included the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which had admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and prohibited slavery in the old Louisiana Purchase Territory north of a line marked by the latitude of 36º 30'.
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December, 1998, issue of the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, COMMENTARY Section, from an article entitled, "Death of the Imperial Presidency." Robert Dallek is a professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of several books on U.S. history, including "Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973" (Oxford University Press, 1998).
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His winning the popular vote by 5%, almost 7 million votes, would not ... have won him the Presidency of the United States. Why, because neither he nor Gore or Bush would not have won enough states to gather a majority, the 270 votes out of the 538 Electoral College votes that are needed to win.
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