The election of 1876 is sometimes considered to be a second Corrupt Bargain. Four Southern states had contested vote counts, and for either candidate to win the election, he would need more electoral votes. In Congress, an agreement was made: Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican candidate, would be elected under the following conditions: Hayes's cabinet would include one Southerner. The Union troops would withdraw from the South. A policy of noninterference from Hayes. Reconstru ...

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Definition and meaning of corrupt bargain:

corrupt bargain

In the controversial Election of 1824, John Quincy Adams laid himself open to the charge of having won the presidency by virtue of a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay. Employing his great influence in the House of Representatives, Clay swung the House vote for Adams for president. Adams then appointed Clay as his secretary of state.

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Democratic New York City mayor Robert Wagner has granted collective bargaining rights to city employees in 1958. This led to the unions replacing Tammany Hall as the city's most powerful political force. Wagner formed a close alliance with the public-sector unions. [5] Reformist Republican John Lindsay won the November 1965 mayoral election by campaigining against the city's often corrupt political machines. With the transit contract set to expire the sam ...

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Andrew Jackson had won a plurality of both the popular(a) and electoral votes in the election of 1824, but had still been beaten by John Quincy Adams when the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, the then-Speaker of the House, had played kingmaker by throwing his support to Adams; when Adams made Clay his Secretary of State, Jackson and his followers accused Clay and Adams of a "corrupt bargain", and had been bashing Adams' presidency as illegitimate ever since. (a) It should be noted that ...

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Meanwhile Jackson, having won a plurality of the popular and electoral votes in 1824, denounced the election as a "corrupt bargain." He launched a crusade to put himself in the White House, and handily defeated Adams in 1828. That year Jackson did not refer to himself as a Democrat or as a member of any party; he did not have a ticket with candidates for state office, and he issued no platform. In a word, he did not operate a political party. Working closely with state leaders, especially Martin Van Buren of New York, Thomas Ritchie of Virgi ...

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When Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal on 9 August 1974, Ford assumed the Presidency (again under the 25th Amendment), proclaiming that "our long national nightmare is over". On August 20 Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the Vice Presidency he had vacated, once more under the 25th Amendment. Gerald Ford - Pardon of Nixon. On September 8, 1974 Ford gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed while President or, indeed, for anything else he might have done. Ford explained that he felt the pardon ...

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Nixon's post-election defeatist mood did not last. He moved to New York City where he became a well-paid senior partner in a leading law firm, Nixon Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander. During the 1966 Congressional elections, he stumped the country in support of Republican candidates, rebuilding his base in the party. In the election of 1968, he completed a remarkable political comeback by taking the nomination. Nixon appealed to what he called the "silent majority" of socially conservative Americans who disliked the "hippie" counterculture ...

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Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon in a house his father built from a kit purchased from Sears, Roebuck. He was raised by his mother as an evangelical Quaker. His upbringing is said to have been marked by such conservative evangelical Quaker observances as refraining from drinking, dancing and swearing. His father (known as Frank) was a former member of the Methodist Protestant Church who had sincerely converted to Quakerism but never fully ab ...

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When Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal on 9 August 1974, Ford assumed the presidency, proclaiming that "our long national nightmare is over". On August 20 Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the Vice Presidency he had vacated, again under the 25th Amendment. Gerald Ford - Pardons Nixon. On September 8, 1974 Ford gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed while President or, indeed, for anything else he might have done. Ford explained that he felt the pardon ...

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U.S. presidential election 1824 - Campaign. The election was a contest between: General Andrew Jackson, a charismatic hero of the War of 1812 and a former U.S. representative and senator; John Quincy Adams, son of former President John Adams, former U.S. Minister to Russia, one of the drafters of the Treaty of Ghent, and the current Secretary of State; William H. Crawford, former U.S. minister to France, former U.S. senator from Georgia, former Secretary of War, and the current Secretary of the Treasury; and Henry Cla ...

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Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in a part of town which eventually became the separate town of Quincy. The John Quincy Adams birthplace, now part of Adams National Historical Park, is open to the public, as is the nearby Abigail Adams Cairn, which marks the site from which he viewed the Battle of Bunker Hill as a seven-year-old boy. Adams acquired his early education in Europe, at venerable institutions such as the University of Leiden while accompanying his father who was serving as an American envoy to France, and later t ...

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In 1952 he was elected Vice President on Dwight D. Eisenhower's ticket, although he was only 39 years old. One notable event of the campaign was Nixon's innovative use of television. Nixon was accused by nameless sources of misappropriating money out of a business fund for personal use. He went on TV and defended himself in an emotional speech, where he provided an independent third-party review of the fund's accounting along with a personal summary of his finances, which he cited as exonerating him from wrongdoing, and he charged tha ...

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Gerald Ford - Memoirs and primary sources. Cannon, James. Time and Chance: Gerald R. Ford's Appointment with History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. (Chapters 1-3 concern Ford's early life and election to Congress; chapters 4–7 his congressional career; chapters 8–11 Watergate; chapters 12–19 concern Ford's appointment as Vice President, his Vice Presidency, the move to impeach Richard Nixon, and the transition to the Presidency; chapter 20 concerns the Nixon pardon; and chapter 21 is a summary ...

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Nixon was working in Washington at the Office of Price Administration when he was encouraged to run for Congress in 1946 by friends back in California. He won a seat in the U.S. House by unseating Democrat Jerry Voorhis, in an aggressive campaign. The 80th Congress was the first with a Republican majority since the 1930 election and its freshman class was filled with fellow war veterans. ...

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Rather than retire, Adams would go on to win election as a Democratic-Republican to the House of Representatives beginning with the 22nd Congress, serving from March 4, 1831, until his death. He was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (for the 22nd through 26th, 28th and 29th Congresses, respectively), the Committee on Indian Affairs (for the 27th Congress) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (also for the 27th Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1834. In 1841, Adams represented the Amis ...

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In 1960, he ran for President on his own but lost to John F. Kennedy. The race was very close all year long, and any number of small episodes could have tilted the results one way or the other, including the televised debates.Nixon campaigned on his experience, but Kennedy said it was time for new blood and suggested the Eisenhower-Nixon administration had been soft on defense. In 1962, Nixon lost a race for Governor of California. In his concession speech, Nixon accused the media of favoring his opponent Pat Brown, and stated that it was his "last press c ...

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John Quincy Adams - Election to Presidency. Although Adams lost in both the popular and electoral votes in the Presidential election of 1824 to Andrew Jackson, neither secured a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives. Adams and the third place vote-getter, Henry Clay, agreed to an unacknowledged arrangement that gave the Presidency to Adams and ...

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Richard Nixon - Foreign policy. "People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true." (concerning fear and paranoia in the Cold War) "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." (1985 looking back at the Vietnam War) On his secret war in Cambodia even after it became public knowledge. "Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another."[3] ...

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Nixon was elected to the United States House of Representatives from southern California in 1946 by unseating Democrat Jerry Voorhis, in an aggressive campaign. The 80th Congress was the first with a Republican majority since the 1930 election and its freshman class was filled with fellow war veterans. Nixon became friends with John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Nixon served on a committee that helped to implement the Marshall Plan which aided war-torn Europe. He also helped in the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act which set up co ...

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