u/Just_Cause89

Would it have changed the 1972 election at all if Nixon and Kissinger forced President Thieu to agree to the Paris Peace Accords in October 1972 and officially declared the end of the war just days before the election?

u/Just_Cause89 — 5 days ago

Would it be wrong to claim that Reagan was more pro-illegal immigration and pro-gun control than Obama ever was?

u/Just_Cause89 — 5 days ago
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US troops posing for a photograph during Operation Urgent Fury, the liberation of Grenada in 1983

u/Just_Cause89 — 5 days ago

Stalin and Ribbentrop shaking hands after the signing of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact in the Kremlin on August 23, 1939

u/Just_Cause89 — 5 days ago

What are your thoughts on this Mitt Romney quote? Is it as bad as it was made to seem at the time?

u/Just_Cause89 — 5 days ago

In 1976 he was a drunk picked up in Maine for DUI. In 2001, he was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States

u/Just_Cause89 — 6 days ago

In this Oct. 9, 1970, file photo, Rep. George H.W. Bush talks with a group of young people at a Republican rally in Houston.

u/Just_Cause89 — 6 days ago
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1976 US Presidential Election by county. In what should have been a slam dunk after 8 years of Republican rule including the Watergate Scandal, Georgia Democrat Jimmy Carter just barely squeaked by a win over incumbent Republican Gerald Ford.

u/Just_Cause89 — 6 days ago
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In this 1977 yearbook photo from The Citadel military academy in South Carolina, students dress in KKK outfits and stage a lynching of their black classmate.

u/Beginning_Ratio8422 — 6 days ago

Celebrating the triumph of American capitalism over Soviet communism, U.S. President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Coca-Cola Deputy Region Manager in Russia Michael O’Neill drink Coca-Cola on May 11, 1995, during the Clintons’ visit to the Coca-Cola factory in Moscow

u/Just_Cause89 — 7 days ago
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Celebrating the triumph of American capitalism over Soviet communism, U.S. President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Coca-Cola Deputy Region Manager in Russia Michael O’Neill drink Coca-Cola on May 11, 1995, during the Clintons’ visit to the Coca-Cola factory in Moscow

u/Just_Cause89 — 6 days ago

How would you rank Bill Clinton's foreign policy? I feel like his foreign policy gets discussed the least of the modern Presidents.

u/Just_Cause89 — 7 days ago

Are people often able to correctly guess your political leanings based on your most admired Presidents and historical figures?

u/Just_Cause89 — 7 days ago

He was an awful dude in most regards, but he was always spot on regarding the Union

Andrew Jackson, John F. Brown, William White (1837). “Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: with a short sketch of his life”, p.245

u/Just_Cause89 — 8 days ago

Why does all of the hate for the Trail of Tears get piled on Andrew Jackson, with Martin Van Buren escaping relatively unscathed outside of academic circles?

u/Just_Cause89 — 8 days ago
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"Confessions of a Republican" 1964 LBJ campaign ad attacking the extremist appeal of the Goldwater movement

u/Just_Cause89 — 8 days ago