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The 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).
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Harry S. Truman
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Presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and was the first President of the Baby Boomer generation.
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Bill Clinton
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Implemented and ratified Amendment XXVI, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 (1971).
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Richard M. Nixon
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The 40th President of the United States (1981-1989).
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Ronald Reagan
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Mostly pursued a policy of non-interventionism in Latin America, although he did send warships to El Salvador in 1931 to support President Araujo against a coup d’état led by Araujo’s minister of war.
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Herbert Hoover
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Only President born in Georgia.
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Jimmy Carter
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Only President born in Connecticut.
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George W. Bush
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The first of only two Presidents since 1920 to preside over a net loss of jobs from the economy. When he left office, nearly 25% of the workforce was unemployed.
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Herbert Hoover
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The second of two presidents since 1920 to leave office with a net loss of jobs from the economy.
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Donald Trump
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After asserting “I’m not a crook,” he resigned in disgrace in 1974 once his role in the Watergate scandal became known.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Only President born in Illinois.
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Ronald Reagan
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Without a declaration of war, authorized the deployment of U.S. troops under the auspices of the U.N. to repel North Korea’s invasion of South Korea under Kim Il-sung in 1950.
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Harry S. Truman
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The only President to have served more than two terms.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Faced with increasing unemployment (from 5.9% in 1989 to 7.8% in mid-1991) and a ballooning federal deficit (from $152.1 billion in 1989 to $220 billion in 1990), he was forced to renege on his campaign promise: “… read my lips. No new taxes.”
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George H. W. Bush
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Alaska (1959) and Hawaii (1959) were admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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His Executive Order 10924 established the Peace Corps as part of his plan to keep communism out of recently decolonized developing nations.
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John F. Kennedy
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His New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations designed to provide relief for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly; help the economy recover from the Great Depression; and reform the financial system to avoid a repeat of the depression.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Championed and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Immigration Act and amendments to the Clean Air Act.
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George H. W. Bush
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In response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch in 1957, created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), although he later suffered buyer’s remorse.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In response to the death of a U.S. soldier in a West Berlin disco bombing, this President authorized the use of force against Libya in 1986.
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Ronald Reagan
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