RADDATZ: Let me ask you this, Senator, and I know what you said at the top, but from what you already know, would you vote against his nomination? SLOTKIN: I just don't -- I’m not going to do that. I’m a new senator-elect. I’m not going to set a standard where --...
The educational historian, Adam Laats, recently pointed out an important similarity between President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination for Education Secretary this year, Linda McMahon, and Trump’s previous Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos. Both are outsiders who have never worked in the public school...
This time, he also won South Carolina, and beat a fading Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani in Florida before effectively clinching the nomination with a clutch of wins on Super Tuesday. That November, McCain came up against the historic appeal of a much younger and more eloquent rival, Obama. M...
Naval Academy, where he launched his career of service to the country six decades ago. Sept. 5, 2018: Kyl sworn in Jon Kyl, the former U.S. senator who once served alongside McCain, is sworn into office to fill McCain's vacant Senate seat. The Politician U.S. Senate: 1986-2018...
In 1815 PresidentJames Madisonappointed Crawford secretary of war and a year later named him secretary of the treasury, a position in which, from 1816 to 1825, Crawford’s abilities were best utilized. A leading candidate for the presidential nomination in 1816, Crawford deferred toJames Monroe,...
as a presidential consideration to three Republican national conventions (1880, 1884, and 1888). His lack of popular appeal, however, and his middle-of-the-road course onmonetarypolicies, which suited neither the inflationist West nor the conservative East, prevented his winning the nomination. ...