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U.S. Presidents 1953 - present Pop Culture: Politics of Media Literacy GHUM 1180 Professor Reeves Medaglia-Miller, Ph.D.
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Dwight Eisenhower 34 th president 1953-1961 CIA overthrow of Iran Suez Crisis Formosa Revolution Coined ‘Military Industrial Complex’ Wiki link
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John Kennedy 35 th president 1961-1963 Cuban missile crisis Pledged to dismantle CIA Anti-military Assassination victim Wiki link
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Lyndon Johnson 36 th president 1963-1969 Escalated Vietnam War The Great Society Wiki link
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Richard Nixon 37 th president 1969-1974 Escalated Vietnam war Focus of Watergate Scandal Wiki link
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Gerald Ford 38 th president 1974-1977 Member of Warren Commission Ended Vietnam involvement Pardoned Richard Nixon Wiki link
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Jimmy Carter 39 th president 1977-1981 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Blamed for failed operation to release embassy hostages in Iran Wiki link
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Ronald Reagan 40 th president 1981-1989 Iran-Contra scandal Secret Afghan war Employed Bin Laden Began ‘Star Wars’ Wiki link
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George H.W. Bush 41 st president 1989-1993 Pardoned Ronald Reagan Gulf War & The Highway of Death The Bush Doctrine Wiki link
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Bill Clinton 42 nd president 1993-2001 NAFTA agreement Bombing: Somalia, Bosnia (Serbia), Afghanistan, Sudan, Kosovo, Iraq Wiki link
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George Bush 43 rd president 2001-2009 Office of Special Plans War on Terror Afghan War Iraq War Patriot Act Hurricane Katrina Wiki link
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Barack Obama 44 th president 2009-present 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Escalated Afghan War Bombed Libya Has used drones to conduct assassinationsdrones Wiki link
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