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 Cuban Missile
Crisis In the fall of
1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came
dangerously close to war after it was learned
that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had begun
deploying medium and intermediate range ballistic
missiles in Cuba. |
 An Overview of Ronald Reagan's
Administration
A conservative tide in 1980 swept Ronald
Reagan into the presidential race and on to an
electoral victory that also gave him a Republican
Senate and a House that could provide a
bipartisan conservative majority. During a term
that was most noteworthy for its foreign policy,
arms treaties were signed with the Soviet Union,
the Panama Canal was returned to Panama, and the
Berlin Wall came down in a wave of protests that
also led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
 Stewart Lee
Udall served as Secretary of the
Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson. In that capacity he was
instrumental in the passage of several laws aimed
at protecting the environment, and for a major
expansion of the National Park System. |
 An
Overview of John F. Kennedy's Administration
At 43, John F. Kennedy
was the youngest man ever elected President, and,
at 46, the youngest ever to die in office. As
President, Kennedy won world respect as the
leader of the Free World. On the home front, the
U.S. enjoyed its greatest prosperity in history. |
 Richard
Milhous Nixon: A Chronology of His Life and
Career When Richard
Nixon was elected President in 1968, he climaxed
one of the most extraordinary political comebacks
in U.S. history. In 1960, while serving as
Vice-President under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Nixon ran for the presidency and lost
to John F. Kennedy. In 1962, he was defeated when
he ran for Governor of California, his home
state. After this loss, one television network
presented a program called "The Political
Obituary of Richard Nixon." |
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