The outstanding American Presidents

Иванова Е.В.

Иванова Ю.В.

Санкт-Петербург 2011

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William H. Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham

Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur

Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert C. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald W. Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama

American Presidents

Grover Cleveland

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a
pattern for all other
Presidents to follow
G.W.:
“As the first

of everything, in our situation
will serve to establish a Precedent”

The first president

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From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution,
Washington managed his
lands around Mount Vernon
and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

He soon realized that the Nation under its Articles
of Confederation was not functioning well,
so he became a prime mover in the steps
leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787.

altar of God
form of tyranny over the
mind

of man”

During Jefferson's second term,
he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation
from involvement in the Napoleonic wars,
though both England and France interfered
with the neutral rights of American merchantmen.

The third president

as the only
Means to save the nation

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen,
and not in mine, is the momentous issue
of civil war.
The government will not assail you....
You have no oath registered in Heaven
to destroy the government,
while I shall have the most solemn one
to preserve, protect and defend it."

The 16th president

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prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the

only
thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the
"good neighbor"
policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine
from a unilateral American manifesto
into arrangements for mutual action against
aggressors.

The 32d president

youngest to die in office”

He wished America to resume its old mission
as the first nation dedicated to the revolution
of human rights

The 35th president

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed
by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas,
Texas.

During the administration of
William J. Clinton, the U.S.
enjoyed more peace and
economic well being than
at any time in its history

He was the first Democratic president since
Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.

The 42d president

a budget surplus.

he successfully dispatched peace keeping
forces to war-torn Bosnia
and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein
stopped
United Nations inspections
for evidence of nuclear, chemical,
and biological weapons.

In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding
personal
indiscretions with a young woman
White House intern, Clinton was the second
U.S. president to be impeached by the House
of Representatives.

President of the United
States
George W. Bush is the 43rd

President
of the United States.

President Bush declared war against terror
and has made victory in the war
on terrorism and the advance of human freedom
the priorities of his Administration.

President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush,
a former teacher and librarian,
and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
The Bush family also includes their two dogs,
Spot and Barney, and a cat, India.

United States.
Barack Obama

Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005

until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.