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Herblock's History - Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium âI am Not a Crookâ Nixon, with sign, I am not a crook. On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors that he had not profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice.
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IQ Hoaxes AssessmentPsychology.com > Assessment > IQ Scores > IQ Hoaxes. In mid-2001, a hoax list of estimated IQs of the U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush was circulated via email. The hoax email shows Bill Clinton having the highest IQ (at 182) and George W. Bush the lowest (at 91).
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Obama: 'The buck stops with me' Obama: 'The buck stops with me'. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Taking a decidedly different tack from his predecessor in the face of a government failure, President Barack Obama on Thursday took the blame for shortcomings that led to a failed Christmas Day bombing plot, saying, “The buck stops with me.”.
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Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares âI Am Not a Crookâ And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.I have earned everything I have got.”.nd I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.”.
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- Your Parental Control settings do not allow you to view this content. Nixon: I am Not a Crook. On November 17, 1973, President Nixon gave a nationally televised and broadcast press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover-up and stated that he had never profited from his public service.
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Gerald Ford: A Boy Scout President Columnist Morton Kondracke writes that Gerald Ford was “straightforward, honest, uncomplicated?an Eagle Scout nearly incapable of dissembling.” Indeed, it is significant that Ford was the only U.S. President to have attained Scouting’s highest rank. Scouting is more than learning practical survival skills.
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Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares âI Am Not a Crookâ “And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.”. The news conference did little to end questions over Mr. Nixon’s honesty.
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- Presidents of the United States: Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory, as Andrew Jackson came to be known, rode into office on a landslide of popular sentiment, winning 55% of the popular vote in an election where 60% of the total population showed up.
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George Washington: The Reluctant President In this curious speech, Washington spent a ridiculous amount of time defending his decision to become president, as if he stood accused of some heinous crime. He denied that he had accepted the presidency to enrich himself, even though nobody had accused him of greed.
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10 Of The Greatest Pranks Pulled Off By US Presidents Andrew Jackson’s pranks were a little less. . . sophisticated than those of the other presidents. Early in his law career, Jackson attended a pleasant dinner at a local tavern. As a joke, he broke all the plates, shattered the glasses, split the table in two, and then lit it all on fire.
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Nixon, Watergate and Walt Disney World? There is a connection There, on Nov. 17, 1973, during a televised Q&A session with the press, Nixon famously proclaimed the statement that would become the go-to move for Nixon impersonations. Go ahead, channel your inner Richard Nixon and give it a try. Chances are, you just said, “I am not a crook.”.
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Nixon insists that he is not a crook On this day in 1973, in the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that he is “not a crook.”. Nixon made the now-famous declaration during a televised question-and-answer session with Associated Press editors.
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- Warren G. Harding. 29th President, 1921-23. The original Warren G is widely considered one of the country's worst Presidents. Harding was an Ohio newspaper publisher who eventually rose to become U.S. Senator; he preferred poker, socializing and, it was said, womanizing to working.
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- 5 facts you may not know about Lincoln's assassination. 1  From the moment Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States on November 6, 1860, he was no stranger to death threats. In fact, he compiled a vast array of menacing letters in a White House desk folder - labeled A for assassination.
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10 Reasons Richard Nixon Was Secretly An Amazing President 10 Reasons Richard Nixon Was Secretly An Amazing President. Even if you just think he’s a character on Futurama, you’ve probably heard of Richard Nixon. The 37th president of the United States was a crook, a liar, and a raging anti-Semite. He deliberately sabotaged the Vietnam peace process, launched the expensive failure known as the War on Drugs, and famously ordered his goons to try to burgle the Democratic Party’s headquarters.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the most useless of them all? Obama rated WORST president since WW2 in embarrassing poll 1 Sitting president Barack Obama was cited as the worst U.S. president out of the dozen men who have held the position dating back to 1945. 2  Former Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan ranked first on survey-takers' lists, followed by philandering presidents Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy.
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10 Of The Greatest Pranks Pulled Off By US Presidents 1 Truman’s Cheeky Prank. The buck may have stopped with Harry Truman, but conning a person into facing their phobia certainly did not. Truman was set to take a trip to South America, and a group of reporters were coming with him.
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- Bah! Humbug!” These two words are instantly associated with Charles Dickens’ immortal fictional anti-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was the prototype of the Grinch who stole Christmas, the paradigm of all men cynical. We all recognize that Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean person-stingy, insensitive, selfish, and unkind.
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Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon. I am not a crook.. On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon infamously denied any involvement in the Watergate scandal with his now timeless defense. Thing is, he was.op 10 Unfortunate Political One-Liners. Nov. 17 marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Richard Nixon's his famous I am not a crook line at the height of the Watergate scandal.
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Who Knew? U.S. Presidential Trivia Six other Presidents were luckier and survived their assassination attempts: Andrew Jackson (1829-37), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45), Harry Truman (1945-53), Gerald Ford (1974-77), and Ronald Reagan (1981-89).
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Dennis Haysbert In 2001, Haysbert became best known when he was cast in 24 as U.S. Senator David Palmer, who served as America's first African American President (in the context of the show) during the second and third seasons.
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Abraham Lincoln This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 April 2017. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.
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Gillespie: Obama 'one of most divisive presidents in history' Gillespie: Obama 'one of most divisive presidents in history'. Suggestions by Barack Obama’s reelection team that Mitt Romney might not have acted to kill Osama bin Laden are “a bridge too far” and “a sign of a desperate campaign,” Romney adviser Ed Gillespie charged Sunday.
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- Unemployment was the overriding fact of life when Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States on March 4, 1933. An anomaly of the time was that the government did not systematically collect statistics on joblessness, actually did not start doing so until 1940.
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Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares âI Am Not a Crookâ And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.”. The news conference did little to end questions over Mr. Nixon’s honesty.
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10 Facts: Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865. Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War and one of the great figures in American history. Expand your knowledge and appreciation of Lincoln's legacy with these amazing facts. Fact #1: The young Abraham Lincoln described himself as “a piece of floating driftwood.”