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instructed not to give me any assistance or even to acknowledge my presence.” When his official portrait was ready to be hung in the White House in 1983 during Reagan’s first term, Carter asked that there be no ceremony so as not to have to stand next to the man he did not respect...
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also-rans and even corpses who have often filled the office. The Constitution gave almost no role to the vice president, apart from casting tie-breaking votes in the Senate. John Adams, the first to hold the job, called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man con...
It’s believed these DNA bases could provide the key to how life may have come about when Earth was first formed. This theory was proven quite literally by scientists who discovered “the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in ...
In Russia, he might have been called a holy fool. In America, his career raised the disquieting thought that it might be impossible for a really effective president to also be a really good man.
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s mistress for thirty-eight years, and scholars have argued for years whether Jefferson was the father of her children. DNA tests in 1998 revealed that a male in Jefferson’s line was the father of at least one of her children, though it did not prove conclusively that Jefferson himself ...
A former secretary of state, Martin Van Buren became the first president who had never been a British subject.7The eighth president failed to garner a second term, something that may have had more to do with his predecessor’s policies than his own. Years earlier, President Andrew Jackson ha...