June 13 (Bloomberg) — Al Hunt , executive editor at Bloomberg News, previews tonight’s debate among Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire.
Hunt, speaking on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan,” also discusses the Tea Party’s influence and the outlook for President Barack Obama’s meeting with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Virginia projection then the Breaking news that Barack Obama broke 270 electoral votes and the reactions of the masses seen in Chicago and thoroughout the world.
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The first inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States was held on January 20, 1953. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President and Richard Nixon as Vice President. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the Oath of office to Eisenhower. Nixon was sworn in as Vice President by Senator William Knowland of California minutes earlier.
Eisenhower’s presidency was dominated by the Cold War, the prolonged confrontation with the Soviet Union which had begun during Truman’s term of office. When Joseph Stalin died, he sought to extend an olive branch to the new Soviet regime in his “Chance for Peace speech”, but continued turmoil in Moscow prevented a meaningful response and the Cold War deepened.
In 1953 Eisenhower opened relations with Spain under Fascist leader Francisco Franco. Despite its undemocratic nature, Spain’s strategic position in light of the Cold War and Anti-Communist position led Eisenhower to build a trade and military alliance with the Spanish through the Pact of Madrid, ultimately bringing an end to Spain’s isolation after World War II, and bringing about the Spanish Miracle.
During his campaign, Eisenhower had promised to end the stalemated Korean War. This promise was fulfilled on 27 July 1953 by the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Also, defense treaties with South Korea and the Republic of China were signed, and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) alliance in an effort to halt the spread of Communism in Asia was formed.
Eisenhower, while accepting the doctrine of containment originally developed by George F. Kennan, sought to counter the Soviet Union through more active means as detailed in the State Department memorandum NSC-68. His covert action policy was laid out in NSC 162/2. He, along with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, developed the tactic of covert action, used the Central Intelligence Agency—directed by Allen Welsh Dulles to interfere with suspected Communist governments abroad. An early use of covert action was against the elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq. The Shah of Iran and pro-monarchy forces ejected him from power in the complex 1953 Iranian coup d’état (Operation Ajax) supported by U.S. intelligence agencies. The CIA also orchestrated a coup the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état that overthrew the democratically-elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, in Operation PBSUCCESS.
Covert action continued throughout Eisenhower’s administration. In the newly independent but chaotic Republic of Congo, the Soviet Union and the KGB had intervened in favor of popularly elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Anti-Communism had become an issue and the U.S. and CIA gave weapons and covert support to pro-Western and Democratic CIA assets Joseph Kasavubu and his subordinate, Colonel Joseph Mobutu. The initial struggle came to a close in December 1960, after Kasavubu and Mobutu overthrew Lumumba and proceeded to turn the country (later known as Zaire) into an autocracy which was unstable long after the end of Eisenhower’s term. Lumumba was murdered shortly after his deposition, and some allege that the CIA (Sidney Gottlieb), collaborated with Mobutu in the assassination.
Eisenhower also increased U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, a process which had begun under his predecessor Truman. In 1954, he sent Dulles to Geneva as a delegate to the Geneva Conference, which ended the First Indochina War and temporarily partitioned Vietnam into a Communist northern half (under Ho Chi Minh) and a non-Communist southern half (under Ngo Dinh Diem). In February 1955, Eisenhower dispatched the first American soldiers to Vietnam as military advisors to Diem’s army. After Diem announced the formation of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly known as South Vietnam) in October, Eisenhower immediately recognized the new state and offered military, economic, and technical assistance.
In 1956, Eisenhower strongly disapproved of the actions of Britain, France and Israel in sending troops to Egypt in the dispute over control of the Suez Canal. He used the economic power of the U.S. to force his European allies to back down and withdraw from Egypt. However, he later described this decision as the greatest foreign policy mistake he made during his time in office.
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Donald Trump is a major media personality and, according to himself, a great businessman. He also has a major ego. Is he serious about running for president? What are his chances of winning the Republican nomination? As a candidate running as a Republican, how will this impact other Republican candidates and the Republican rank and file? What is his appeal beyond the Republican Party? Is Trump electable? What does a potential Trump presidential candidacy say about the state of American politics?
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The opening edition of the Capitol Chronicle, covering Inauguration Day in Carson City, Nevada.
Todd Taxpayer is the host of The Capitol Chronicle, covering the Nevada State Capital using new media technologies. www.TheCapitolChronicle.com
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Newt illustrates the choice the GOP, and America, faces in 2010 and 2012. Learn more at http://Newt.org
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Dan Rather anchors coverage of the inauguration of George Bush as the 41st president of the United States.
This portion begins at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, immediately after the inaugural address, and features Ronald Reagan’s departure from the Capitol.
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To contributor Ben Stein, Huckabee, Palin, Romney, and Haley Barbour all have their pros and cons, but none stands out as a clearly winning alternative for the 2012 Republican candidate as Barack Obama.
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This is more a Call to Action than a typical commentary.
We need your video responses, even if you have nothing to say other than “I support open debates”! That’s fine. Anything is better than silence.
We also need to write Google, Obama, and McCain expressing our demand for Nader to be in the debate, along with any other candidate who reaches 5 percent or more in the polls. Pressure Obama not to slink away from a debate which promises to be more democratic than the CPD debates. Call him out on this one.
Below are the entities you need to contact followed by part of a long-winded article I wrote which continues on my website.
Google, Inc.
Ginny Hunt – Google Elections Program Manager
Eric Schmidt – Google CEO
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
(650) 253-0000
Obama Campaign:
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680
(866) 675-2008
McCain Campaign:
John McCain 2008
P.O. Box 16118
Arlington, VA 22215
(703) 418-2008
http://www.neworleanstownhall.org
Click “contact us” in the bottom right corner and request that Nader be allowed in the Google debate.
http://www.opendebates.org
Click “Your Role” at the top and sign the petition to replace the CPD with a non-partisan, Citizen’s Debate Commission that will allow Independent and third-party candidates to be included.
Google is scheduled to hold a debate independent of the corporate Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). This is possibly our one and only chance to get Obama and McCain to debate Ralph Nader and any other third-party or independent candidate running for the presidency. We must pressure Google to lower their requirements to 5% before this opportunity is lost. While using exclusionary tactics to silence opposition, these two major parties seem to think that freedom, a term they both speak highly of, means having power for yourself at the expense of others.
In 1992, independent candidate Ross Perot, who was polling at 7-9 percent, was included in the debates at the request of George H.W. Bush, who made Perot’s inclusion a precondition for his own participation. Under current CPD requirements of 15 percent, Perot wouldn’t have been admitted today.
In 1996, Bob Dole proposed that if Perot were kept out of the debates he would allow the Clinton campaign to decide the terms of the event. Clinton agreed. George Stephanopolous, senior advisor to Clinton at the time, took pride in the undemocratic deal between the two candidates, explaining: “As long as we would agree to Perot not being in it, we could get everything else we wanted going in. We got our time frame, we got…”
read the rest of this article here:
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2008/08/11/an-appeal-to-democrats-and-republicans-%E2%80%93-open-the-debates/
much thanks to Blue Gal for the narration
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/
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