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Category : Republican National Convention
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1432

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Republican National Convention
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Lewis L. Gould
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199943478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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This highly readable narrative history of the Republican Party profiles the G.O.P. from its emergence as an antislavery party during the 1850s to its current place as champion of political conservatism.

Author: Milton W. Blumenberg
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: David Hamilton Golland
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Arthur Fletcher (1924–2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. The first black player for the Baltimore Colts, the father of affirmative action and adviser to four presidents, he coined the United Negro College Fund's motto: "A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste." Modern readers might be surprised to learn that Fletcher was also a Republican. Fletcher's story, told in full for the first time in this book, embodies the conundrum of the post–World War II black Republican—the civil rights leader who remained loyal to the party even as it abandoned the principles he espoused. The upward arc of Fletcher's political narrative begins with his first youthful protest—a boycott of his high school yearbook—and culminates with his appointment as assistant secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon. The Republican Party he embraced after returning from the war was "the Party of Lincoln"—a big tent, truly welcoming African Americans. A Terrible Thing to Waste shows us those heady days, from Brown v. Board of Education to Fletcher's implementing of the Philadelphia Plan, the first major national affirmative action initiative. Though successes and accomplishments followed through successive Republican administrations—as chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights under George H. W. Bush, for example, Fletcher's ability to promote civil rights policy eroded along with the GOP's engagement, as New Movement Conservatism and Nixon's Southern Strategy steadily alienated black voters. The book follows Fletcher to the bitter end, his ideals and party in direct conflict and his signature achievement under threat. In telling Fletcher's story, A Terrible Thing to Waste brings to light a little known chapter in the history of the civil rights movement—and with it, insights especially timely for a nation so dramatically divided over issues of race and party.

Author: Myra G. Gutin
Publisher: Modern First Ladies
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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A lively account of the outspoken first lady during her White House years, showing how the "Silver Fox" used her rich experience in politics to master the public relations side of first ladyship with as much skill as any White House spouse.

Author: Ohio. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1106

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