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… White House records soon will be transferred from the National Archives to a library associated with the Nixon … to raise money for libraries to house their records. The National Archives runs the libraries but the foundations … out his records, but they lost in court. The law handed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) a clear …

… concluded that the United States should focus on the Soviet Union’s capabilities, not its intentions. He argued that … Acheson had adopted a hard-headed attitude recognizing international relations as power politics. Acheson’s sage advice …

… Marxism-Leninism. Nixon never wavered in believing that the Soviet Union was the major Communist state to be feared and a great … an outgrowth of his attachment to a particular vision of nationalistic Leninism. Deng was convinced that the main …

… the biggest questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source … his initiation of support for Afghan militants, resisting Soviet pressure and presence in Afghanistan, that … pretty important hand in this sequence, by fueling the anti-Soviet war of the of the 1980s and then walking away from …

… and easily accessible. Thomas J. Watson’s company, the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), was eager to … up with a solution: Congress should fund the creation of a National Data Center that would centralize all the … whether it wanted to admit it or not, now had a de facto national database, the thing Congress had rejected twenty …

… administration announced a plan to limit the reach of the National Environmental Policy Act, which has required … and others in 1964 raft down the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Burning River: The Cuyahoga … water sources declined. Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, in 2014. While the benefits of the …

… report is likely to have little impact. There is no national urgency to confront issues of race, at least on the …

… the Indians, antagonized the Mexicans, ran up a huge national debt, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt that … the real Republic of Texas, said, as he ordered the Texas national flag lowered over the capital and the U.S. flag …

… figure in the most powerful party. One of the nation’s two nationally elected officials thus became far less … to generate many unintended consequences. Refusing gay unions legal sanction will certainly not prevent the …

… both suffers from the same fatal flaw. The publication of National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley’s Nov. 8 memorandum … which he has failed to do towards the Shiite militias. The national security adviser barely considers the more likely …

… didn’t simply see slavery as a source of increasing national division, but as he grew old he defended the need …

… could command those structures. A button for the Youth International Party, a radical, youth-oriented, countercultural … students, parents, government officials, police officers, union organizers, bystanders, and other witnesses to the … by weakening the iron grip that the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) had held on the government. Federal Chancellor …

… of private sexual behavior. We’re in the midst of a national discussion about where to draw the line. What most … marriage and monogamy. A few commentators will question our national stance on sex work. Prostitution is not illegal in … always arouse great excitement. Setting aside the true national sex scandals — skyrocketing rates of HIV and STD …

… and mis-use, of history. Pressing to lift the ban on gay unions, proponents correctly note that interracial marriages … So, advocates argue, history "proves" that bans on same-sex unions are just as bigoted and misguided as the racial … I am personally and profoundly repulsed by bans on same-sex unions. But I don't think that I as an historian can …

… control of the Pacific trade routes, and the demarcation of national borders. Previous military conflicts in the region … making it one of the most coveted products in international trade and industry.  This economic activity caused … Quechua to the linguistic diversity of the area. The international economic recession of the 1870s hit the region hard …

… eager to paint all opposition as cowardly and a danger to national security. In contrast with his support of …

… to broker an agreement between warring political factions. Nationalist Augusto Sandino and his followers rejected the … the country in 1933, Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio … will be defeated any time soon. At the same time, the national armies we are training could end up being used to …

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… history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In … time that recently you had an effort at Northwestern to unionize players, which is a truly bizarre concept, because … by the NLRB to take a vote on whether they wanted to unionize and as soon as this happened, the whole apparatus …