“Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1913-March 4, 1921). Democratic. Wilson was elected president as a Democrat in 1912. He was the only U.S. President to earn a Ph.D. degree. During his administration the U.S. entered World War I and renounced neutrality when Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare. He was barely reelected in 1916.”
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“Warren G. Harding (March 4, 1921-August 2, 1923). Republican…President Harding often rewarded political allies and contributors with powerful positions with financial leverage. Scandals and corruption ran rampart under his administration. Scholars and historians consistently regarded Harding as one of the worst Presidents. He died during a train stop while on a return trip from Alaska to California.”
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“Calvin Coolidge (August 2, 1923-March 4, 1929). Republican. Calvin Coolidge succeeded President Warren G. Harding when the latter passed away while still in office. Coolidge restored the public’s confidence of the White House and its drop because of the scandals from Harding’s administration. Coolidge was highly popular when he left office and was elected to serve again in 1924 after finishing Hardin’s term.”
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“Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929-March 4, 1933). Republican. One of Hoover’s strategies to garner votes was to appeal to white Southerners and ignored civil rights. Hoover was a professional mining engineer. His training and technical expertise led him to believe in the Efficiency Movement, which asserted that the economy and government were inefficient and wasteful and could therefore be improved by expert knowledge. Less than eight months in office Hoover had to face the Great Depression. By the end of this term his administration had yet to find a solution to the economic disaster.”
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“Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945). Democratic. A.k.a. FDR. FDR is consistently regarded by scholars as [one of] the top three U.S. Presidents. He was the only president to serve three terms, after which an amendment was drafted to officially declare the two-term limit. During his time as president, FDR juggled with a great depression and a world war. Over the course of his presidency he drafted many projects which re-stimulated the economy and reduced unemployment from 20% to as low as 2%.”
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“Harry S. Truman (April 12, 1945-January 20, 1953). Democratic. Truman served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third vice president and succeeded him on April 12, 1945 when he died less than three months of his fourth term. During his presidency Truman had to deal with many challenges in domestic affairs. He established the Truman Doctrine to contain communism and spoke out against racial discrimination in the armed forces.”
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“Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 20, 1953—January 20, 1961). Republican. Before his service as the 34th U.S. President, Eisenhower was a five-star general in the U.S. Army. During WW2 he served as Supreme Commander of Allied forces with responsibility for leading the victorious invasion of France and Germany in 1944 to 1945. His focus as President was to reverse end U.S. neutrality and challenge Communism and corruption. He drafted NASA to compete with the Soviet Union in the space race.”
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“This was the situation in the early 1950’s which the forces or the movement led by Fidel Castro was determined to change. The first major event on their program was the July, 1953 assault on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba, the second city way out on the eastern portion of the island. It was a total failure. It didn’t even last thirty minutes-Fidel’s Buick broke down and everything else that could go wrong went wrong. Most of them were captured…That Batista dictatorship executed about sixty-one of the one hundred and twenty or so who assaulted the Moncada barracks in the first day or so. The Church intervened and Fidel and the others were saved. But they were tried, convicted and sentenced to long prison terms, Fidel for fifteen years. They were sent to the prison on the Isle of Pines, which is the large island off the southwestern coast of Cuba, which has since been renamed the Isle of Youth.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
Philip Agee, “A Century of War and Bad Faith; Cuba History, and the CIA,” Prevailing Winds Magazine, March 9, 1994, Page 23
“It was 1956 when Fidel [Castro] swam the Rio Grande over to McAllen, Texas to meet with Carlos Prio, the civilian president that [Fulgencio] Batista had overthrown in 1952. Prio agreed to give Fidel money. He gave him $100,000. With that money they bought weapons. They continued their training. They found a yacht on which they could sail back to the far eastern province of Cuba known as Oriente and begin the armed struggle again against Batista…Late one night, after midnight, in a storm in late November of 1956, they set sail. It was a nightmare all the way. It was stormy. There was constant seasickness and diarrhea. They ran out of food and water. The navigator fell overboard. Everything happened. It all ended in a shipwreck. They ran aground on a mud flat some miles from where they had intended to land. They had to wade through hi-deep mud up to the shore, leaving behind their weapons. What was waiting onshore? A huge man-grove swamp that swallowed them up. It looked like Moncada all over again. The Granma was the name of the yacht. It was built of wood in 1943 for a maximum of twenty-five people. So you can imagine what it was like with eighty-two, plus the weapons, plus the stores, and everything else. It took them a little more than a week to get from Tuxpan on the Mexican coast to Oriente.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
Philip Agee, “A Century of War and Bad Faith; Cuba History, and the CIA,” Prevailing Winds Magazine, March 9, 1994, Page 24
“They were twelve men, with Fidel [Castro], going up into the Sierra Maestra mountains-the very high, rugged mountain range on the southeastern coast of Cuba in December 1956. Twelve men against [Cuban President Fulgencio] Batista’s army of 40,000. The most amazing thing is that they were able in two years to defeat Batista’s army. Because of the political suppression, that dictatorship lost all the support it had.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
Philip Agee, “A Century of War and Bad Faith; Cuba History, and the CIA,” Prevailing Winds Magazine, March 9, 1994, Page 24