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Once again, civically-challenged Donald has threatened to use the military to quell civil unrest (quite illegally) – but how is that different from the DoD preparing to use the military to quell civil unrest (also quite illegally)?
His accomplishments as president were overshadowed by his criminal acts. No, not that guy – Richard Nixon. Learn how a lifetime of foreign policy culminated in actions that are still felt today - and the two-hundred years that precipitated his abandonment of the gold standard in 1971.
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
The Warren Report was not well-received by the American public when it was released in 1964. What were some of the problems within and without the Report that caused people to lose faith in their government?
By 1971, the United States had abandoned the Gold Standard. Calamities attributed to this action range from the vortexian national debt to soybeans being called “edamame”. Can a conclusive argument be made for or against the Gold Standard to lay the issue in its final, albeit gilded, resting place?