"reference file for the sculpture included a photograph of a cowboy that very closely resembled his 1892 illustration of ""A Bucking Bronco"". The ""Bronco Buster"" followed the same kind of process liberating horse and man from two-dimensionality as before. On September 13, 1898 at Camp Wickoff at Montauk Point, New York, the Rough Riders gave Theodore Roosevelt a casting of ""The Bronco Buster"". Of the gift Remington said it was ""the greatest compliment I ever had...After this everything will be mere fuss."" Roosevelt responded, ""There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment."" The cast which Theodore"
"Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923, a member of the Republican Party. At that time, he was one of the most popular U.S. Presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration such as Teapot Dome eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. Presidents, Harding is often rated among the worst. Harding lived in rural Ohio all his"
"decrease of his own poll numbers and fundraising were largely due to his two debate performances being largely panned by commentators. During the less formal section of the debate the candidates were asked what secret service nicknames they'd choose were they to become President of the United States. The candidates answered as follows; Jeb Bush: Eveready (a reference to Donald Trump's earlier ""low-energy"" criticism), Ben Carson: One Nation, Chris Christie: True Heart, Ted Cruz: Cohiba, Carly Fiorina: Secretariat, Mike Huckabee: Duck Hunter, John Kasich: Unit 2 (his wife is Unit 1), Rand Paul: Justice Never Sleeps (Tapper suggest it might"
"in a phrase originally used to describe longtime network news anchor Walter Cronkite, ""the most trusted man in America"". On April 28, 2009, during a discussion on torture with Clifford May, Stewart expressed his opinion that former President Harry S. Truman was a war criminal for his use of the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II. He defended his assertion moments later: ""Here's what I think of the atom bombs. I think if you dropped an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore and you said, 'The next one's coming and hitting you', then I would think it's okay. To"
"Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Although Forrestal was admired for his efficiency and hard work, he was despised for his Wall Street background and strong anti-communist views by some in the media, particularly Pearson, who began attacking Forrestal while Roosevelt was in office. Pearson told his associate Jack Anderson that he (Pearson) believed Forrestal was ""the most dangerous man in America"" and claimed that if he was not removed from office he would ""cause another world war"". Pearson also insinuated that Forrestal was guilty of corruption, though he was completely unable to prove any wrongdoing. The lowest blow came in"
"presidency. Murray argued that Harding sowed the seeds for his administration's poor standing: Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923, a member of the Republican Party. At that time, he was one of the most popular U.S. Presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration such as Teapot Dome eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. Presidents, Harding"
"as the pre-inaugural entertainment. Thousands of demonstrators attended the inaugural ceremonies in Washington, D.C., to protest the outcome and controversial circumstances of the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election. Four protesters were arrested and Bush's limousine was hit by a tennis ball and an egg thrown from the crowd during the inaugural parade. Details of the parade were famously derided in the opening chapter of the 2001 #1 bestseller ""Stupid White Men"", pages 14-15. First inauguration of George W. Bush The first inauguration of George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States took place on Saturday, January 20, 2001."
"first time a United States President acknowledged American non-believers in an inaugural address. Obama's inaugural address received mixed reviews, with some describing the tone of the speech a praiseworthy one of restraint and plain speaking, while others described the speech as low-brow and cliched. Despite his optimism, Obama was critical of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for ""The New York Times"", described the speech as the harshest rebuke of an outgoing President during an inaugural address since Franklin Roosevelt's call for restoration of American values. The Bush administration was upset about"
"President George W. Bush. In 2006, he published ""Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy"" (), which is critical of the George W. Bush administration's economic policies as departing from traditional conservative principles. He compared the second Bush to Richard M. Nixon as ""two superficially conservative presidents who enacted liberal programs to buy votes for reelection."" In August 2009, Bartlett wrote a piece for the ""Daily Beast"" in which he attributed the global financial crisis and following recession to George W. Bush and Republicans, whose policies he claimed resulted in an inferior record of economic"
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"dropped in return for a promise to end Reconstruction. This thesis was most notably advanced by C. Vann Woodward in his 1951 book, ""Reunion and Reaction"". Other historians, however, have argued that no such compromise existed. Many of Tilden's supporters believed that he had been cheated out of victory. Hayes was variously dubbed ""Rutherfraud,"" ""His Fraudulency,"" and ""His Accidency."" On March 3, the House of Representatives went so far as to pass a resolution declaring its opinion that Tilden had been ""duly elected President of the United States."" Nevertheless, Hayes was peacefully sworn in as President on March 5. Many"
"are beautiful and unique, but in large numbers become an unstoppable avalanche that will bury you."" Others have returned the insult back at those with right-wing politics, arguing ""oversensitive whiners can be found all over the political spectrum"" including President Trump. Comedian Neal Brennan referred to Donald Trump as ""the biggest snowflake in America,"" while a January 2017 opinion piece from ""The Guardian"" refers to President Trump as ""Snowflake-in-Chief"" and CNN commentator Van Jones called Trump ""President Snowflake"" based on his response to the FBI's Russia probe in May 2017. In the 1860s ""snowflake"" was used by abolitionists in Missouri"
"time, according to a five year in-depth research project conducted by the Centre for Public Integrity; the President of the United States George W. Bush and seven high-ranking officials in his administration made at least 935 false statements about the threat posed to the world and to US national security by Saddam Hussein. These false statements were virtually uncontested by the corporate media and presented as a sound rationale for both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the ""War on Terror"". In ""Buying the War"" on PBS, Bill Moyers noted 27 ""Washington Post"" editorials supporting George W. Bush's ambitions to"
"his most famous verbal gaffe, Goldwater once joked that the U.S. military should ""lob one [a nuclear bomb] into the men's room of the Kremlin"" in the Soviet Union. Goldwater was also hurt by the reluctance of many prominent moderate Republicans to support him. Governors Nelson Rockefeller of New York and George Romney of Michigan refused to endorse Goldwater and did not campaign for him. On the other hand, former Vice-President Richard Nixon and Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania loyally supported the GOP ticket and campaigned for Goldwater, although Nixon did not entirely agree with Goldwater's political stances and said that"
"Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) became the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953) upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as Vice President. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO. Truman was elected as a U.S. Senator in 1934 and gained national prominence as chairman of the Truman Committee aimed at waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts. Soon after succeeding to the presidency he became the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. Truman’s"
"a reporter for MTV News during the Democratic National Convention in 1992, and was seen as leaning to the political left, in light of the lyrics of ""Foreclosure of a Dream"". Mustaine has criticized several Democratic Party politicians. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Mustaine commented that he believed that John Kerry would ""ruin our country"". In addition, Mustaine has made several comments critical of president Barack Obama, calling him ""the most divisive president we've ever had"" in 2011, and commenting that he believed that Obama was born outside of the United States during a March 2012 interview on ""George Stroumboulopoulos"
"policy wonk""; and himself, ""the ditch digger who makes it all happen"". In the summer of 1997 several House Republicans, who saw Speaker Newt Gingrich's public image as a liability, attempted to replace him as Speaker. The attempted ""coup"" began July 9 with a meeting between Republican conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio and Republican leadership chairman Bill Paxon of New York. According to their plan, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Majority Whip DeLay, Boehner and Paxon were to present Gingrich with an ultimatum: resign, or be voted out. However, Armey balked at the proposal to make Paxon the"
"""the MTV president."" Since 2000, he has frequently been referred to as ""The Big Dog"" or ""Big Dog."" His prominent role in campaigning for President Obama during the 2012 presidential election and his widely publicised speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where he officially nominated Obama and criticised Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Republican policies in detail, earned him the nickname ""Explainer-in-Chief"". Other nicknames include ""Slick Willie"", ""The Comeback Kid"", ""Bubba"", and ""The First Black President"". Clinton, a Baptist, has been open about his faith. Clinton drew strong support from the African American community and made improving race relations"
"States of America in that whole 35-year period: George H. W. Bush (1989-1993), Bill Clinton (1993-2001), George W. Bush (2001-2009), Barack Obama (2009-2017) and Donald Trump (2017-present). Although an all-American band, Crumbsuckers' heritage is mostly derived from European lineages: Germany (Meskil), Great Britain (Richardson), Ireland (Brady & Lenihan) and Italy (Notaro & Piovanetti). While Crumbsuckers were riding high in 1988, they remained great friends with another Long Island band who had yet to fully blossom. That band was called Majesty. Waving a strong demo tape before the bosses at Mechanic Records, Chuck Lenihan campaigned hard to get them to offer"
"Truman, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrew Jackson, and John F. Kennedy. More recent Presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are often rated among the greatest in public opinion polls, but do not always rank as highly among presidential scholars and historians. The bottom 10 often include James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor, and George W. Bush. Because William Henry Harrison (30 days) and James A. Garfield (200 days, incapacitated after 119 days) both died shortly after taking office, they are usually omitted"
"the revitalisation of the General Assembly."" Described by Reuters as ""a fierce critic of the foreign relations of the United States (he referred to Ronald Reagan in 2004 as ""the butcher of my people""): ""Because of Reagan and his spiritual heir George W. Bush, the world today is far less safe and secure than it has ever been."" Following his election to the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, he offered a statement interpreted as renewed criticism aimed at the United States: ""The behavior of some member states has caused the United Nations to lose credibility as an organisation"
"other politicians. Kessler gave his worst rating to other politicians 15 percent to 20 percent of the time, but gave it to Trump 63 percent to 65 percent of the time.<ref name=""Milbank_7/1/2016""></ref> Kessler wrote that Trump was the most fact-challenged politician that he had ever encountered and lamented that ""the pace and volume of the president's misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up."" The ""New York Times"" editorial board has frequently lambasted Trump's dishonesty. In September 2018, the board called him ""a president with no clear relation to the truth"".<ref name=""NYT_Editorial_Board_9/7/2018""></ref> The following month, the board published an opinion"
"and as this ""guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America"". During this period of essentially leaderless government, the U.S. economy ground to a halt as thousands of banks failed. The relationship between Hoover and Roosevelt was one of the most strained between Presidents. While Hoover had little good to say about his successor, there was little he could do. FDR, however, supposedly could and did engage in various petty official acts aimed at his predecessor, ranging from dropping him from the White House"
"subject of great dispute among its three participants. According to Magruder, the three men approved the so-called Operation Gemstone and other aspects of a ""dirty tricks"" campaign against the Democratic Party. LaRue and Mitchell, to their deaths, always denied this vehemently. In 2003, Magruder stated, for the first time, that it was at this meeting that President Nixon, speaking to Mitchell by telephone, voiced specific approval for the Watergate burglary. Mitchell and Nixon had both been dead for years, and Fred LaRue denied Magruder's claim publicly. LaRue was known as the ""bagman"" because he delivered more than $300,000 in cash"
"the 30 yards claimed. The incident hurt Cheney's popularity standing in the polls. According to polls on February 27, 2006, two weeks after the accident, Dick Cheney's approval rating had dropped 5 percentage points to 18%. The incident became the subject of a number of jokes and satire. Dick Cheney Richard Bruce Cheney (; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He has been cited as the most powerful Vice President in American history. At the same time he has been among"
"at which he chose to follow the operation details. There is no doubt, however, ... [that] the President set the US policy towards Nicaragua, with few if any ambiguities, and then left subordinates more or less free to implement it. Domestically, the affair precipitated a drop in President Reagan's popularity. His approval ratings saw ""the largest single drop for any U.S. president in history"", from 67% to 46% in November 1986, according to a ""The New York Times""/CBS News poll. The ""Teflon President"", as Reagan was nicknamed by critics, survived the affair, however, and by January 1989 a Gallup poll"
"George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924November 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency, Bush served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As a member of the Republican Party, he had previously been a congressman, ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. During his career in public service, he was known simply as George Bush, but after his son George W. Bush became the 43rd president in 2001, he was referred to"
"the worst President ever?""— 50% responded ""no"", 41% said ""yes"" and 9% were ""unsure"". The movie Vice is about George W. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his vice president. The early trailers portray Bush as unequipped for the presidency. At the beginning of his first term, Bush's reputation suffered due to his narrow victory in Florida and the attendant controversy surrounding his electoral college victory, which included accusations of vote suppression and tampering. While routinely criticized by Democrats, Bush was also sometimes criticized by Republicans. A number of American celebrities and sports and media personalities engaged in heated criticism"
"U.S. Presidential IQ hoax The U.S. Presidential IQ hoax was a mid-2001 e-mail and internet hoax that purported to provide a list of estimated IQs of the U.S. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush. The hoax email showed Bill Clinton having the highest IQ (182) and George W. Bush the lowest (91). However, the numbers claimed in the email were said to be fabricated, and the sociologists and institutions (e.g., the ""Lovenstein Institute"") quoted in the article do not exist. The techniques purportedly used to measure IQ of the presidents are not recognized means of measuring IQs."
"8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935-1945) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war,"
"Bush as President of the United States, the Vulcans all received key positions within the new administration. On December 13, 2001, in accordance with his campaign promises on National Missile Defense, Bush gave Russia six months notice of the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This was the first time in recent history the United States had withdrawn from a major international arms treaty. However, the humble foreign policy outlined by Bush during his campaign was quickly dropped after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in favor of a more aggressive policy that has been dubbed the Bush"
"He also suggested a propensity to attack could arise from a ""usually adventuresome"" second term presidency. He said: ""US presidents are usually adventuresome in their second terms... [Richard] Nixon, disgraced by the Watergate scandal; [Ronald] Reagan, with the 'Irangate' adventure; [and Bill] Clinton, with Monica Lewinsky—and perhaps George Bush, the sitting president, will create a scandal connected to Iran's legitimate nuclear activity so as not to be left behind."" His speculation led him to suggest a clash could occur between the 2008 U.S. presidential elections and by the time the new president enters office in January 2009. ""In the worst-case"
"Public image of George W. Bush George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has elicited a variety of public perceptions regarding his policies, personality, and performance as a head of state. In the U.S. and elsewhere, journalists, polling organizations, and others have documented the expression of an evolving array of opinions of President Bush. ""Time"" magazine named George W. Bush as its Person of the Year for 2000 and 2004, citing him as the most influential person during these two years. The approval ratings of George W. Bush ranged from a record high to a record low."