Democratic Party
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Eudora Welty | Back home, EW
worked a slew of part-time positions trying to begin a writing career and support herself financially: she resumed her script-writing position at |
politics | Maya Angelou | MA
strongly supported Hillary Clinton
as prospective Democratic
presidential candidate in 2008, but after Clinton left the race she supported the successful candidate, Barack Obama
, with equal force as he competed for and won... |
Timeline
November 1800: In the US election the Democratic-Republicans...
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November 1800
In the US election the Democratic
-Republicans
decisively defeated John Adams
and the Federalist party
. According to the system of that time Thomas Jefferson
was chosen for President (over Aaron Burr
) not...
August 1968: Thousands of Yippie radicals occupied Chicago...
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August 1968
17 June 1972: A secret investigation unit made their second...
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17 June 1972
A secret investigation unit made their second break-in at the headquarters of the US Democratic Party
in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC; the investigators were arrested.
: The US Democratic Convention, held this year...
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Autumn1972
The US Democratic
Convention, held this year in Miami, saw the first action by the newly formed National Women's Political Caucus
.
7 November 1972: Richard Nixon was re-elected President of...
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7 November 1972
Richard Nixon
was re-elected President of the United States—although his agency in the break-in to Democratic Party
headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC, had already been established by reporters Carl Bernstein
and...
18 December 2000: George W. Bush, the Republican Party candidate,...
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18 December 2000
George W. Bush
, the Republican Party
candidate, was finally declared President of the United States when the Electoral College returned a majority of votes in his favour (271 to 267), although the popular vote...
8 November 2016: The American people, offered the opportunity...
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8 November 2016
The American people, offered the opportunity to elect their first female President in the person of Hillary Clinton
, chose instead to confer the presidency on Donald Trump
, a developer, former reality tv host...
27 September 2018: A committee of the US Senate heard testimony...
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27 September 2018
A committee of the US Senate
heard testimony from Christine Blasey Ford
, an academic psychologist, that Brett Kavanaugh
, President Trump
's nominee to the Supreme Court
, had sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers.
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