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The Words of Thomas Jefferson

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Newly inaugurated Gerald Ford pardons his predecessor Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

When you're teaching expansionism, Mexican American War, Oregon Territory, the administration of the 11th president of the USA, James K Polk, you might find (and your students will enjoy) this history song helpful in getting down in a fun way the main facts about this moment in American history. (With apologies to They Might be Giants)

Vice-Presidents of the United States: John Adams (1789-1797), Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801), Aaron Burr (1801-1805), George Clinton (1805-1812), Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814), Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825), John C. Calhoun (1825-1832), Martin Van Buren (1833-1837), Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841), John Tyler (1841), George Dallas (1845-1849), Millard Fillmore (1849-1850), William R. King (1853), John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861), Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865), Andrew Johnson (1865), Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873), Henry Wilson (1873-1875), William A. Wheeler (1877-1881), Chester A. Arthur (1881), Thomas A. Hendricks (1885), Levi P. Morton (1889-1893), Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897), Garret Hobart (1897-1899), Theodore Roosevelt (1901), Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909), James S. Sherman (1909-1912), Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921), Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923), Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929), Charles Curtis (1929-1933), John N. Garner (1933-1941), Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945), Harry S. Truman (1945), Alben W. Berkley (1949-1953), Richard Nixon (1953-1961), Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963), Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969), Spiro Agnew (1969-1973), Gerald Ford (1973-1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977), Walter Mondale (1977-1981), George H. W. Bush (1981-1989), Dan Quayle (1989-1993), Al Gore (1993-2001), Dick Cheney (2001-(current)).

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 -- March 28, 1969) was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953--1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. As a Republican, he was elected the 34th U.S. President, serving for two terms. As President, he ended the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defence priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System

Dwight D. Eisenhower exit speech on Jan.17,1961.
Warning us of the military industrial complex

Presidents Clinton, Bush Pledge to Lead Fundraising Efforts for Haiti. President Barack Obama, joined by his predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, said Saturday the two former presidents will lead efforts to raise relief funds for Haitian victims in the wake of a deadly earthquake that has killed tens of thousands and sparked fears of a public health disaster. Amid growing despair and desperation in Haiti, President Barack Obama today enlisted his two presidential predecessors to lead an ongoing American effort to help that country recover from Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Barack Obama, flanked by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush behind a podium in the White House Rose Garden, said Americans must "do their part" to see that Haiti gets help. "Every day that goes by, we learn more about the horrifying scope of this catastrophe -- destruction and suffering that defies comprehension, entire communities buried under mountains of concrete, families sleeping in the streets, injured desperate for care, many thousands feared dead," Obama said. A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting new misery on the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. THOUSANDS of people were feared dead today after a major earthquake hit Caribbean island Haiti. The massive quake - 7.3 on the Richter scale - has destroyed thousands of buildings in the impoverished country. Dead and injured people lay in the streets after the quake

This video begins with vintage pictures of the American colonists' domestic life -- circa 1776. Next, mother country England imposes its tyranical decrees: the *Stamp Act* and the *Tea Tax*. Next, the colonists' violent rebellions in Boston, followed by the writing of the *Declaration of Independence* by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. And finally a war against England led by George Washington. The pivotal point of the war was the crossing of the Delaware River at night for a successful sneak attack on the enemy in the early morning. With the help of the French the war is finally won, and so is the Founding Fathers' vision of an independent Constitutional Republic.

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