to suburban Cobb and Gwinnett counties to learn how this is playing out. Both were once the GOP’s power base in the state but have shifted sharply to the left: Trump became the first Republican to lose each county for the first time since former Gov. Jimm...
Gerald Ford occupied the White House from 1974 to 1977, but was never elected on a presidential ticket. He became vice president under the 25th Amendment when President Richard Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned in disgrace. As Agnew’s replacement in the order of presidential success...
He was elected in 1997 as the first African American Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, serving two terms. He was known for his achievements in gaining reinvestment in the city to revitalize downtown. He ran again in 2009 and was elected. When he ran for what would have been his fourth term...
In 1976, Walter White, Jr., “a concerned patriot,” conducted an interview with a young Jew named Harold Rosenthal who was the assistant to Sen. Javits of New York. In the interview, later published as “The Hidden Tyranny”, the arrogant Rosenthal belligerently boasts (on tape) that ...
These are the Black women who have made a bid for the highest office in the country. Charlene Mitchell Although it’s been widely and incorrectly reported that Chisholm was the first Black woman to run for president, Charlene Mitchell actually beat her to it. Just 38 at the time, Mitchell...
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1976):In 1976, shortly before he retired from the University of Chicago, Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity...
Who was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War? Who started the Tea Party Movement? Who led the Dixiecrats in the presidential election of 1948? Who ran for the Democrats in the presidential election of 1908? Who ran for the Republicans in the presidential election of 1952?
– September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976....
Margaret Chase Smith holds the distinction of being the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president at a Republican convention. She was also the first woman elected to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, representing Maine from 1940 to 1973. ...
When Ford ran in 1976, he was laden with the legacy of his predecessor. Shortly after becoming president, Ford pardoned Nixon, something that did not add to his overall political reputation. Fordsaid he pardoned Nixonto help the nation move past Watergate, but there was speculation...