U.S. Presidents 1953 - present
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U.S. Presidents1953 - present
Pop Culture:Politics of Media LiteracyGHUM 1180
Professor Reeves Medaglia-Miller, Ph.D.
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DwightEisenhower34th president 1953-1961 CIA overthrow of Iran Suez Crisis Formosa Revolution Coined ‘Military
Industrial Complex’ Wiki link
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John Kennedy
35th president 1961-1963 Cuban missile
crisis Pledged to
dismantle CIA Anti-military Assassination
victim Wiki link
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LyndonJohnson36th president 1963-1969 Escalated
Vietnam War The Great
Society Wiki link
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RichardNixon
37th president 1969-1974 Escalated
Vietnam war Focus of
Watergate Scandal
Wiki link
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Gerald Ford
38th president 1974-1977 Member of Warren
Commission Ended Vietnam
involvement Pardoned Richard
Nixon Wiki link
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Jimmy Carter39th president 1977-1981 2002 Nobel
Peace Prize Blamed for failed
operation to release embassy hostages in Iran
Wiki link
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Ronald Reagan40th president 1981-1989 Iran-Contra
scandal Secret Afghan war Employed Bin
Laden Began ‘Star Wars’ Wiki link
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George H.W. Bush41st president 1989-1993 Pardoned
Ronald Reagan Gulf War & The
Highway of Death
The Bush Doctrine
Wiki link
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Bill Clinton42nd president 1993-2001 NAFTA
agreement Bombing:
Somalia, Bosnia (Serbia), Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo, Iraq
Wiki link
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George Bush43rd president 2001-2009 Office of Special
Plans War on Terror Afghan War Iraq War Patriot Act Hurricane Katrina Wiki link
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BarackObama44th president 2009-present 2009 Nobel Peace
Prize Escalated Afghan
War Bombed Libya Has used drones to
conduct assassinations
Wiki link