...there is a lot of discrimination against mustached Americans. For example, the last U.S. president to wear a mustache was William Howard Taft , who left office in 1913. Perlut said that the last mustached major-party presidential candidate was...

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...Hood, to express condolences and to offer any help Cone needs, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Obama was getting regular Oval Office updates on the shooting from his staff, led by his homeland security adviser, John Brennan.

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...that problems aren't created by sponsored (naked) access," Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Elisse Walter told Reuters. Walter is one of five commissioners who make decisions on federal securities rules. She is the latest...

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...and New Mexico were admitted to the Union earlier in the year - Wilson captured 435 electoral votes against the 8 won by William Howard Taft , the Republican incumbent, and the 88 won by Theodore Roosevelt. TR, as he was known, had...

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...1912, Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent Republican William Howard Taft. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office as he...

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...and support this article by retweeting it! Republicans control the all of Virginia 's statewide state government posts now, but Sen. Jim Webb (D- VA ) appealed to them tonight to let the party they just decimated continue to have a voice in...

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...who are suffering and because it is clear that traditional advocacy tools are not working. The Public Option vs. the Ghost of Jefferson Davis But in considering what compromise measure Reid DID include in the bill to make it more...

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...Snowe finds aesthetically or financially appealing. We were lucky Abraham Lincoln did not invite Jefferson Davis into his cabinet to insure that he had a "team of rivals." We were lucky FDR famously "welcomed the hatred" of those who...

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...problem. Author: President Taft got bum rap By Howard Wilkinson hwilkinson@enquirer.com November 1, 2009 If William Howard Taft , the Cincinnatian who reached the presidency of the United States 100 years ago, is largely overlooked or...

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... Lee went along with it. Two years later, after the disaster that was Gettysburg , Lee once again offered his resignation, this time to Jefferson Davis. The Confederate president, of course, refused it. But what if he hadn't? Lee knew many in...

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...in 1799. The Ash Lawn-Highland estate is owned and operated by The College of William and Mary , Monroe 's alma mater. The property features Monroe 's historic house, a 535-acre working farm and a performing arts pavilion. It has been open...

In this article: James Monroe, Ash Lawn-Highland, The College of William and Mary, Monticello, Albemarle County, and Virginia

...creditors sustain losses" in cases where the government intervenes to deal with a failing firm, said U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan on Monday. Speaking with reporters at a conference in Chicago , Dugan said the proposal must...

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...bankers need to prepare for sweeping financial regulation changes that are gaining momentum in Congress , Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan said on Monday. "I think the momentum for fundamental change is building," Dugan said during the...

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...massive taxpayer bailouts could be harmed by the rulings of the Obama administration 's pay czar. Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan said pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has a difficult challenge to both rein in outsized paychecks at the...

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...get through a momentous presidency with virtually every newspaper editorial page in the country against him , though he did persuade Joseph P. Kennedy and Cardinal Francis Spellman to intervene with the Vatican to silence Father Charles...

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...New Deal-like programs that helped end the economic panic of 1819. Unger seems to have confused Franklin D. Roosevelt with Monroe , painting Monroe 's achievements in such broad strokes as to render him unrecognizable. Unger gives Monroe...

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James Monroe , a president for our times? Like Obama , Monroe had to deal with high unemployment and home foreclosures. His solutions gave the nation its greatest period of prosperity. October 15, 2009 As Barack Obama tries to address...

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Two giants at odds in long Cold War struggle THE HAWK AND THE DOVE: PAUL NITZE , GEORGE KENNAN , AND THE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR An earlier review of this book that appeared elsewhere was inappropriately headlined with a question the...

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